11 May
2006
11 May
'06
10:33 a.m.
Robert Persson wrote:
I don't know if the other gentoo users on this list
are aware of this, but
someone who goes by the name of nevermind has created a proaudio portage
overlay. You can find out about it at
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-427211.html , or download a live svn
snapshot directly from
http://svnweb.tuxfamily.org/dl.php?repname=proaudio+%28ckpp%29&path=%2F…
.
Overall it is very useful, containing both packages that are missing from the
main portage tree and more recent versions of existing packages. There are
several very nice apps I had not heard of before, such as aeolus, the pipe
organ emulator.
One thing I have found I have needed to do has been to manually download some
of the tarballs to /usr/portage/distfiles, and then to delete some of the
digests and manifests and rebuild them (using "ebuild packagename-1.2.3
manifest digest") in order to generate new checksums. In one case (I think it
was the vst sdk) I had to roll my own tarball in place of the one one of the
ebuilds was unable to download. There were one or two other ebuild tweaks I
had to do as well. So not problem free, but very useful nonetheless.
Robert
I'm not sure what to do about the lash use flag. it conflicts with
ladcca in the gentoo portage tree. that's fine i guess, since i never
got ladcca working (for lack of trying). Also i found myself forced to
upgrade gcc from 3.3 to 3.4, and the revdep-rebuild process choked at
almost every package from the overlay. So i commented it (the overlay)
out of etc/make.conf, and still got complaints. i ended up basically un
installing all of the overlay packages and then commenting out the
overlay and revdep-rebuild, then uncomment it and emerge -uDN world. I
guess this would be better suited for the forums... but i agree that the
overlay is not problem free.
brian