Re: [gentoo-user] bbgallery and template files

[Roy Wright <royw@cisco.com>]

Holly Bostick wrote:

>Harry Putnam schreef:
>  
>
>>First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies.
>>I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently
>>not made it to the server.
>>
>>I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and
>>web gallery software in particular... I found in portage something
>>called `bbgallery' which looks like a nice simple solution to my need.
>>
>>However, after having emerged it and by reading the html docu that
>>comes with it, I'm told in the simplest case one can simply navigate
>>to a directory full of `*.jpg' and call:
>>
>> $ bbgallery
>>
>>When I do that I get an error telling me bbgallery cannot find its
>>default template.  The docu suggests there should be a series of
>>templates created under /usr/lib/bbgallery/template.  However there is
>>not.
>>A full list of the pakgage files shows:
>>    
>>
[snip]

>>No templates at all.
>>
>>Any one here have experience with this tool or can suggest a debugging
>>approach.   I've written to mail address found on its sourceforge home
>>page bb@bb_zone.com but it bounces.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I've just looked at the ebuild:
>
>DESCRIPTION="Webpage image gallery creation perl script"
>HOMEPAGE="http://bbgallery.sourceforge.net/"
>SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/bbgallery/${P}.tar.bz2"
>
>SLOT="0"
>LICENSE="GPL-2"
>KEYWORDS="x86 ppc ~sparc alpha amd64"
>IUSE=""
>
>RDEPEND="media-gfx/gimp
>         dev-lang/perl
>         media-gfx/imagemagick
>         dev-perl/URI
>         dev-perl/libwww-perl
>         dev-perl/HTML-Template
>         dev-perl/HTML-Parser"
>
>
>I would assume that HTML-Template is responsible for building the
>templates (on first run, possibly)?
>
>So then I went to see if there was a possibility that you might have
>disabled HTML-Parser via USE flags:
>
>emerge -pv bbgallery
>
>These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
>Calculating dependencies ...done!
>[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/HTML-Template-2.7  61 kB
>[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51  114 kB
>[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/libnet-1.19  63 kB
>[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.800  +ssl 223 kB
>[ebuild  N    ] app-misc/bbgallery-1.2.0  32 kB
>
>... but there isn't so that wouldn't seem to be it.
>
>Were there any errors in the emerge log? It can certainly happen that a
>program could emerge successfully without building all of its parts. Not
>often, but it can happen. Are there any bugs listed in b.g.o wrt this
>app? Is dev-perl/HTML-Template installed? Are you possibly having other
>issues with Perl (recent upgrade of), and need to run perl-cleaner?
>
>That's all I can think of, until someone who meets your criterion
>(experience with the specific tool) comes along :) .
>
>HTH,
>Holly
>  
>
I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago.  As I needed the
gallery at that instance, I just specified the template on the command
line:

  bbgallery -T monochrome

Note that there is not a "default" template installed into 
/usr/lib/bbgallery.

Also noticed that --meta did not apear to work.  I didn't notice any
problems building.

HTH,
Roy
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