[Cee604]

Hey there,

I am creating a modded version of SiO2-X with iOS7 Colors and I have created a repo and everything seems setup correctly except when I try to install my skin from the repo it will not install. I have tracked this down to script.favorites not auto installing. Now its my understanding that this is an included script with the XBMC.org repo, I cannot figure out why it will not auto install the dependency of script.favorites.

When I install my skin just using the zip file it will install script.favorites and the rest of the dependencies, but when I install from repo it won't even download and install the skin because of this.

Can someone please help me figure this out, I have spent hours trying different things.

FYI I am new to skinning!!!

Here is my Github - LINK

[ronie]

there's something wrong with your skin zipfile.

01:38:16 T:140336219277056 DEBUG: FileManager: copy https://github.com/iCanuck/iCanuck-XBMC-...-0.0.3.zip -> special://home/addons/packages/skin.sio2xios7-0.0.3.zip
01:38:16 T:140336219277056 DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0x7fa280029ad0) https://github.com/iCanuck/iCanuck-XBMC-...-0.0.3.zip
01:38:17 T:140336219277056 DEBUG: GetZipList - Processing zip://special%3a%2f%2fhome%2faddons%2fpackages%2fskin.sio2xios7-0.0.3.zip/
01:38:17 T:140336219277056 DEBUG: ZipManager: not a zip file!

[Cee604]

Hmmm..... Why would it install manually then?

[ronie]

this might be your answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14909...ithub-repo

github is not meant to be (ab)used as a file hosting sever,
therefor they've disabled direct downloads of large files.

[Cee604]

this might be your answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14909...ithub-repo

github is not meant to be (ab)used as a file hosting sever,
therefor they've disabled direct downloads of large files.

This isn't the case. I have changed it to dropbox and also my own personal webspace and it still won't install.

Github works fine, it is an issue with the script.favorites somehow. When script.favorites is already installed the Skin installs fine from github.

[Cee604]

I have tried Sourceforge, BitBucket, Assembla, Dropbox!!!! THIS IS DRIVING ME NUTS! The same thing happens with all of them.You click on Skin to download and install and nothing happens.

I have spent about 8 hours today just trying to setup a damn repo!

[MassIV]

Have you tried removed the script.favorites dependency from skin addon.xml to test? Or throwing a version of script.favorites in your git repo?

If you install from repo, that zip that gets downloaded to packages before install, have you looked at it? Take it out, open it up, try that version manually? Is the auto downloaded version really a good zip?

special://home/addons/packages/skin.sio2xios7-0.0.3.zip

[Cee604]

Have you tried removed the script.favorites dependency from skin addon.xml to test? Or throwing a version of script.favorites in your git repo?

If you install from repo, that zip that gets downloaded to packages before install, have you looked at it? Take it out, open it up, try that version manually? Is the auto downloaded version really a good zip?

special://home/addons/packages/skin.sio2xios7-0.0.3.zip

Yes I have tried removing the script.favorites dependency from the addon.xml. Still same result. I have also tried to put script.favorites in my git repo.
I have looked at the zipped file that ends up in the packages folder and Yes the auto downloaded version is a good zip.

If I manually install the zipped skin everything works fine and the dependencies install as normal. It has to be an issue with the skin itself.

I am currently replacing the xml files one at a time with the originals of the skin I have been modifying. I don't see how this would be an issue as I have only been modifying images and colors.

[Bumpaneer]

Is it me, or is script.favourites not browsable in the repository? I see it in a web browser, but not if I go looking through the XBMC interface. Running a current Gotham nightly.

[`Black]

Yes, it's not visible in the repository because it needs skin support.

[Bumpaneer]

Isn't that true of other things, like Skin Widgets, which are visible?

[Cee604]

Is it me, or is script.favourites not browsable in the repository? I see it in a web browser, but not if I go looking through the XBMC interface. Running a current Gotham nightly.

I was wondering the same thing.

[Cee604]

So I am officially stuck!!!

I have tryed every possible way to get this working to download properly from my repo.

I have taken the Unmodified SiO2-X Skin (version 0.1.2) and added it to my Repo as well. When I download it through XBMC it downloads flawlessly.

So I decided to run a test and use this skin and rename the folder, and edit the addon.xml accordingly by changing the addon id. When I try to download the modified version I just created the same thing happens. It starts to download, shows 0% downloading and stops with no errors.

Here is my log>>

Log Link

It shows me installing the working SiO2-X Skin, and then my failed attempt at installing my SiO2-X iOS7 Skin.

Here is my Github Github Link

[jurialmunkey]

Isn't that true of other things, like Skin Widgets, which are visible?

Yes but skin widgets has user configuration options so needs to be visible in the addons library. Also it is a more complex addon so needs to be accessed for uninstall/disable/rollback etc. and changelogs.

There is no need for users to see something like script.favourites. So for the user it seems like it is seamlessly integrated in the core of xbmc, but it actually remains a modular addon that can have changes made outside of the xbmc release cycle.

[ronie]

So I am officially stuck!!!

I have tryed every possible way to get this working to download properly from my repo.

I have taken the Unmodified SiO2-X Skin (version 0.1.2) and added it to my Repo as well. When I download it through XBMC it downloads flawlessly.

So I decided to run a test and use this skin and rename the folder, and edit the addon.xml accordingly by changing the addon id. When I try to download the modified version I just created the same thing happens. It starts to download, shows 0% downloading and stops with no errors.

Here is my log>>

Log Link

It shows me installing the working SiO2-X Skin, and then my failed attempt at installing my SiO2-X iOS7 Skin.

Here is my Github Github Link

well... i already tried to explain the problem to you two days ago ;-)

first, you're *not* downloading the unmodified SiO2-X skin from your github repo.
xbmc is downloading it from the fastcolors repo:

12:55:20 T:3316 INFO: XCURL:llLibCurlGlobal::easy_aquire - Created session to http://fastcolors.net
12:55:20 T:3316 DEBUG: FileManager: copy http://fastcolors.net/repository/skin.si...-0.1.2.zip -> special://home/addons/packages/skin.sio2x-0.1.2.zip
12:55:20 T:3316 DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0E52F7D0) http://fastcolors.net/repository/skin.si...-0.1.2.zip

then you try to download your skin:

13:02:37 T:3316 INFO: XCURL:llLibCurlGlobal::easy_aquire - Created session to https://github.com
13:02:38 T:3316 DEBUG: FileManager: copy https://github.com/iCanuck/iCanuck-XBMC-...-0.0.3.zip -> special://home/addons/packages/skin.sio2xios-0.0.3.zip
13:02:38 T:3316 DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0A35C3D8) https://github.com/iCanuck/iCanuck-XBMC-...-0.0.3.zip
13:02:39 T:3316 DEBUG: CZipManager::GetZipList - Processing zip://special%3a%2f%2fhome%2faddons%2fpackages%2fskin.sio2xios-0.0.3.zip/
13:02:39 T:3316 DEBUG: ZipManager: not a zip file!
13:02:39 T:3316 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting zip://special%3a%2f%2fhome%2faddons%2fpackages%2fskin.sio2xios-0.0.3.zip/

which fails for the reasons i mentioned before.