LibrarianSync: Kindle collections builder

[barsanuphe]

wha...? I'm not following what went wrong, but at least it works now?

[mobusr]

Originally Posted by barsanuphe

@mobusr
What exactly was wrong with having "%" in filenames?

Try adding into filename '^%', e.g:

'test ^%.mobi'

[mobusr]

Originally Posted by barsanuphe

wha...? I'm not following what went wrong, but at least it works now?

yes, it worked.

let me rephrase what I did:

I've cloned your git repo on windows, so each file had inside at each line carriage returns ^M, that's why it wasnt working on kindle.

[mobusr]

Originally Posted by barsanuphe

@mobusr
I've added a new script to the git repo: tools/offline_folder_export.py that basically creates the collections.json file necessary to build folder-based collections. You can run this on your PC on your local mirror of files, copy your files over to your kindle and collections.json to the extensions folder, and rebuild/update your collections with LibrarianSync.

really impressive!

time ./offline_folder_export.py /mnt/books/

real	0m2.138s
user	0m0.214s
sys	0m1.803s

[mobusr]

btw, where do i need to put collections.json on kindle generated by offline script?


EDIT: nvm, collections.json should be in /mnt/us/extensions/

[mobusr]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@mobusr: Err, that doesn't make sense. When did you install Python, and which version of the package did you use?

EDIT: That is, unless the shebang itself was mangled by carriage returns. But then just dos2unix'ing it should be enough, the python2.7 symlink has been there as long as the python one, so moving from one to the other wouldn't change anything, which is what I was getting at .

Yes, that was the problem.

I did install python. It's in /usr/bin/python on kindle.

[NiLuJe]

@mobusr: The exact same symlink also exists for python, python2 & python2.7, which is what made me wonder.

LIST="/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python2.7"
for var in ${LIST} ; do
    ln -fs "/mnt/us/python/bin/python2.7" "${var}"
done

[mobusr]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@mobusr: The exact same symlink also exists for python, python2 & python2.7, which is what made me wonder.

LIST="/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python2.7"
for var in ${LIST} ; do
    ln -fs "/mnt/us/python/bin/python2.7" "${var}"
done

yeah, i got these..

for some reason which python2.7 gives me nothing tho

[NiLuJe]

@mobusr: Huh. Is the python2.7 symlink actually there and sane, or is it broken?

[knc1]

Oops - again - need coffee

[mobusr]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@mobusr: Huh. Is the python2.7 symlink actually there and sane, or is it broken?

[root@kindle root]# ls -al /usr/bin/python*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            28 Apr  2 21:37 /usr/bin/python -> /mnt/us/python/bin/python2.7
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            28 Apr  2 21:37 /usr/bin/python2 -> /mnt/us/python/bin/python2.7
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            28 Apr  2 21:37 /usr/bin/python2.7 -> /mnt/us/python/bin/python2.7
[root@kindle root]# which python
[root@kindle root]# which python2.7
[root@kindle root]# which python2
[root@kindle root]#

[knc1]

Originally Posted by mobusr

[root@kindle root]# ls -al /usr/bin/python*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            28 Apr  2 21:37 /usr/bin/python -> /mnt/us/python/bin/python2.7
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            28 Apr  2 21:37 /usr/bin/python2 -> /mnt/us/python/bin/python2.7
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            28 Apr  2 21:37 /usr/bin/python2.7 -> /mnt/us/python/bin/python2.7
[root@kindle root]# which python
[root@kindle root]# which python2.7
[root@kindle root]# which python2
[root@kindle root]#

That may just be the behavior of that version of Busybox Ash.

See if that Ash can "which" any other symlinks.

- - - -

OR try the most recent busybox build (in the ARMhf on Kindle tar ball).
Yes, you can run that version of Ash and all/any of the existing Kindle image files.
The "HowTo" page shows how to switch command line interpreters.

[NiLuJe]

Good thing we rely on env and not which in the shebang then ;p.

(Namely because env is always a proper tool, whereas which is often a shell builtin).

[mobusr]

Originally Posted by knc1

That may just be the behavior of that version of Busybox Ash.

See if that Ash can "which" any other symlinks.

it works for bash, but not for python:

[root@kindle root]# which bash
/bin/bash
[root@kindle root]# ls -al /bin/bash
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             7 Apr 23 12:50 /bin/bash -> busybox

basically works ONLY for every symlink pointed to busybox.

- - - -
OR try the most recent busybox build (in the ARMhf on Kindle tar ball).
Yes, you can run that version of Ash and all/any of the existing Kindle image files.
The "HowTo" page shows how to switch command line interpreters.

will try this later, thanks

[knc1]

Originally Posted by mobusr

Will try this later, thanks

I am mostly retired from (new) Kindle development (lack of time).

But that project to run (concurrently) two system libc's I do want to get finished - sometime.

There is one "known problem" at the moment -
LuaJit - needs to include the Amazon module paths in its loader search path.
(OR - require'full path/name' - which looks sort of ugly and can break easily)

Ah, Nano does work just fine.