[linux-audio-user] gentoo proaudio portage overlay

[Robert Persson]

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&rev=0&isdir=1 .

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
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