Widevine, foreign-cdm and linux_base

[fmc000]

This morning set of updates brought in the latest version of emulators/linux_base-c7, which is a deprecated package. I have it installed only because it's needed by www/foreign-cdm and www/linux-widevine-cdm. My question is: is it possible to replace emulators/linux_base-c7 with emulators/linux_base-rl9, which as fas as I understand it's the recommended package nowadays?

 

[SirDice]

Default is still set to c7.

bsd.default-versions.mk « Mk - ports - FreeBSD ports tree

cgit.freebsd.org

But if you build your own packages (or build from ports) you can switch it to rl9 if you want.

 

[fmc000]

281837 – Handbook "CentOS Base System from FreeBSD Packages" recommends deprecated packages

bugs.freebsd.org

The upstream EoL means there won't be any security fixes so I marked the ports DEPRECATED to make users aware of that. There are no plans to remove the c7 ports because the rl9 ports don't support 32 bit programs and they require x86-64-v2 (CPU from 2010). I've been thinking of replacing c7 with debian 12, but I don't have time for that right now.

 

[shkhln]

FWIW, fcdm runs Widevine in a jail under UID_NOBODY with read only noexec filesystem and no network access. You know, just in case.

 

[shkhln]

Although, strictly speaking, the jail's root filesystem is read only + noexec, while the stuff that we are mounting on top of it is read only + nosuid.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

There's a mistake in the May 2024 change to the FreeBSD Handbook (committed a couple of days ago).

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=281837

…

I added a comment there.

Also:

% pkg search rl9 | grep -i userland
% pkg search rl9 | grep -i meta
linux-rl9-9.4                  Meta-port for all things Rocky Linux 9.4
% pkg search linux_base-rl9
linux_base-rl9-9.4             Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (Rocky Linux 9.4)
%

 

[NapoleonWils0n]

i have uninstalled linux_base-c7
and installed linux_base-rl9

when you try and install the foreign-cdm package
it wants to install linux-base-c7 as a dependency

from SirDice comment it looks like you need to build the foreign-cdm port
and change the LINUX_DEFAULT from c7 to rl9

bsd.default-versions.mk « Mk - ports - FreeBSD ports tree

cgit.freebsd.org

if you are using poudriere you would add that change to your make.conf

/usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/make.conf

the default is c7

LINUX_DEFAULT?=c7

and you need to change that to rl9

LINUX_DEFAULT?=rl9

i presume this is the correct syntax below
and that its LINUX_DEFAULT=rl9 and not LINUX_DEFAULT?=rl9 with a question mark

someone correct me if im wrong

make.conf

DISABLE_LICENSES=yes
LINUX_DEFAULT=rl9

and in the port-list build both the linux-widevine-cdm
and the foreign-cdm

www/linux-widevine-cdm
www/foreign-cdm

just tried building with the above options and it failed
and still tried to pull in linux_base-c7

either i have got everything wrong ( which is very possible )
or im missing something

just going to have some tea and look at it again

 

[SirDice]

i presume this is the correct syntax below

It should work the same as all the other *_DEFAULT options from bsd.default-versions.mk you can change, like:

DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= linux=rl9 mysql=10.11m php=8.3 pgsql=16

 

[NapoleonWils0n]

cheers SirDice

so in the poudriere make.conf

/usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/make.conf

i should have used

DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= linux=rl9

instead of

LINUX_DEFAULT=rl9

my bad

 

[SirDice]

Well, both will actually work. So it's not wrong, but the whole premise of bsd.default-versions.mk is to be able to set various default versions for different components in one convenient DEFAULT_VERSIONS variable.

 

[NapoleonWils0n]

i couldnt get LINUX_DEFAULT=rl9 in the make.conf to work
may have been an error on my part

poudriere was still trying to use linux-c7-devtools

even with the following installed

doas pkg install linux_base-rl9 linux-rl9-devtools

interestingly when you search for linux
linux-rl9-devtools actually says (CentOS 9.4)

im not sure if thats a typo

linux-rl9-devtools-9.4         Linux compilers and base libraries (CentOS 9.4)

ill have to give this another crack

 

[Cath O'Deray]

…

when you try and install the foreign-cdm package
it wants to install linux-base-c7 as a dependency …

There's a mistake in the May 2024 change to the FreeBSD Handbook (committed a couple of days ago).

Fixed in doc d4f2d0af3b7636a35722db902b05fd897488569d.