[linux-audio-user] music apps being removed with Sarge/Etch updates

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 00:12, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 10/24/05, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 October 2005 22:47, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > On 10/24/05, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> > > > ps: I hope Linux distro's arn't going the way of MS Windows XP & the
> > > > notorious app trashing service pack 2. But saying that, at least
> > > > Debian have the decency to tell you before you upgrade, which app's
> > > > they're going to trash.
> > >
> > > I don't know what non-Gentoo users feel about the distro (and before
> > > you answer let's start a new religion thread...) but I doubt this sort
> > > of issue will come up this distro.
> > >
> > > - Mark - audio fun on Gentoo for the last 2 years
> >
> > Hi Mark. It took me quite some months to get Gentoo installed, with some
> > breaks to get myself together again. It's up and running now Had a
> > problem getting Gnome and KDE 3.4 to install, but creating a link for
> > libtools named 3.4 and linked to 3.5-2005xxxx fixed that. I've got a few
> > music apps on it, and am quite satisfied with Gentoo, but, not really for
> > a real newbie to install. I've had no app trashing problems from Fernando
> > with FC1,2, and 3, and Slackware 10.0 seems ok too.
> >
> > Just a bit on the side. I'd really like to get Smack the drum machine on
> > Gentoo, and see there are some ebuilds for it, but don't know how to work
> > with them after I've downloaded them. Any hints so that I can use emerge
> > to install them? Thanks for watching. Nigel.
>
> Conceptually I don't think it's too hard. Here's what I just did with Om
>
> 1) Make sure you have a local portage overlay directory defined and
> created. Here's my entry in /etc/make.conf:
>
> lightning media-sound # cat /etc/make.conf | grep portage
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
> lightning media-sound #
>
> 2) Make a directory for media-sound ebuilds:
>
> mkdir /usr/local/portage/media-sound
>
> 2) Make a directory for om
>
> mkdir /usr/local/portage/om
>
> 3) Copy the om-ebuild into /usr/local/portage/media-sound/om
>
> 4) See if it's recognized:
>
> lightning media-sound # emerge -pv om
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "om" have been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request: - media-sound/om-0.2.0 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
>
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
> section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.
>
> lightning media-sound #
>
> 5) Since it's masked I add (for test purposes - I wouldn't build it
> this way) the ~amd64 keyword:
>
> lightning media-sound # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -pv om
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/liblo-0.22  -doc 429 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-sound/om-0.2.0  +alsa -debug -dssi +gtk +ladspa
> -lash 0 kB [1]
>
> Total size of downloads: 429 kB
> Portage overlays:
>  [1] /usr/local/portage
> lightning media-sound #
>
> I would then decide if the USE flages were good, adjust
> /etc/portage/package.use as necessary, and when they were I'd build
> it.
>
> Not too difficult.
>
> I got the om ebuild from Gentoo's Bugzilla where these things get
> submitted:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109194
>
> There is an ebuild submitted for the Om plugins. I did not spot one
> for Smack. Maybe you can write one?! ;-)
>
> Let me know if you get it running.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mark

Hi Mark. I've got as far as emerge -pv om. Unfortunately I've lost the syntax 
for a one shot unmask for a single package. I need to unmask om which is 
being masked by -x86 keyword. Nigel.

BTW there are ebuilds for om, omins, and smack, at  a link from 
http://smack.berlios.de  . I havn't sent the URL for the link, as it's a bit 
weird.