Packaging problem broke XBMC

[peci1]

After latest update of xbian-package-xbmc on my Raspi 3, Kodi stopped working.

The problem was a dangling symlink:

$ ll /usr/local/lib/kodi
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      274 Apr 28 14:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      176 Apr  5 10:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     1926 Apr 28 14:56 addons
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root        8 Apr 28 14:56 kodi.bin -> kodi-gbm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26539564 Mar 29 22:46 kodi-rbpi
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root       14 Oct  8  2019 system

As you can see, kodi-gbm disappeared. Even after apt install --reinstall xbian-package-xbmc.

So I downloaded the latest release and the previous one, and look:

$ dpkg -c xbian-package-xbmc_18.6-1585514714_armhf.deb | grep -v addons | grep lib/kodi
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2020-03-29 22:46 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2020-03-29 21:51 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/system/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2020-03-29 21:51 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/system/players/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2020-03-29 22:46 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/system/players/VideoPlayer/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root    207600 2020-03-29 22:46 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/system/players/VideoPlayer/libdvdnav-arm.so
-rwxr-xr-x root/root  26539564 2020-03-29 22:46 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/kodi-rbpi
-rwxr-xr-x root/root  32114108 2020-03-29 22:46 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/kodi-gbm
$ dpkg -c xbian-package-xbmc_18.6-1585552801_armhf.deb | grep -v addons | grep lib/kodi
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2020-03-30 09:25 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2020-03-30 06:28 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/system/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2020-03-30 06:28 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/system/players/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2020-03-30 09:25 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/system/players/VideoPlayer/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root    227756 2020-03-30 09:25 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/system/players/VideoPlayer/libdvdnav-arm.so
-rwxr-xr-x root/root  31585604 2020-03-30 09:25 ./usr/local/lib/kodi/kodi-rbpi

Apparently, the kodi-gbm file somehow disappeared from the distributed package.

I downloaded the package from

$ apt-cache policy xbian-package-xbmc
xbian-package-xbmc:
  Installed: 18.6-1585514714
  Candidate: 18.6-1585552801
  Version table:
     18.6-1585552801 500
        500 http://apt.xbian.org stable/rpi-buster armhf Packages
 *** 18.6-1585514714 500
        500 http://apt.xbian.org stable/rpi2-buster armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[peci1]

Or is it because the newer package comes from rpi-buster? Should I remove rpi-buster from my sources list? I think I'm using the deafult one with staging:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbian.list 
deb http://apt.xbian.org/      stable  main rpi2-buster    rpi2-buster    armv7l-buster    rpi-buster    armv7l-buster
deb http://apt.xbian.org/  staging main rpi2-buster    rpi2-buster    armv7l-buster    rpi-buster    armv7l-buster
#deb http://apt.xbian.org/  devel   main rpi2-buster    rpi2-buster    armv7l-buster    rpi-buster    armv7l-buster

[mkreisl]

This is your fault: you have to remove all rpi-buster entries from your xbian.list and then reinstall xbian-package-xbmc.

No idea where the rpi-buster entries came from. I had same entries in one of my test configs

[peci1]

Okay. So maybe this would need an automated solution that would edit the xbian.list based on which RPI is the system running on?

[mkreisl]

there is one in maintenance script in package xbian-package-repo

[peci1]

I was wrong, this is an RPi 4, does it change something?

[mkreisl]

No

[peci1]

Okay, so was this a consequence of a bad update/upgrade?

[mkreisl]

I already told: I have no idea! The script never has been changed for years

[peci1]

Okay. Feel free to close this bug if you think it should be closed. If it starts happening to more people, they'll hopefully find it and it can be reopened.

[peci1]

Thank you ;)