[linux-audio-user] gentoo proaudio portage overlay

[Frieder Bürzele]

Hi,

I'm the author of the proaudio overlay
Tom and me maintain the overlay
please report problems directly to the gentoo forums topic:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-427211.html
or send me a mail directly


Greetings Frieder


Brian Dunn wrote:
> 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&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
please be more specific which downloads fail so I can fix them
>> 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
In the case of vst-sdk your forced to download it manually because we 
are not allowed to
distribute it (look at its license)
I've fixed/changed the the ebuild a bit to point that out
> I'm not sure what to do about the lash use flag. it conflicts with 
> ladcca in the gentoo
please read  00-OVERLAY-INFO:
http://svnweb.tuxfamily.org/filedetails.php?repname=proaudio+%28ckpp%29&path=%2F00-OVERLAY-INFO
> 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