Portage overlay

From CenterIM

There now is an easy way for gentoo users to keep up with development. If you haven't already layman do a quick

emerge layman

then

echo "source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf" >> /etc/make.conf

and your layman is ready to use

now you need to edit /etc/layman/layman.cfg and add the line with the overlay metadata. It should look like that then:

<snip>
overlays  : http://transacid.de/overlay.xml
	    http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt
</snip>

now layman can receive the information. to import the overlay the last thing is:

layman -L
layman -a centerim

Now use your usual commands to update your system. One last thing: The ebuilds are in ~x86 so you probably have to put it into /etc/portage/package.keywords

It's probably useful to add "layman --sync-all" to the script that is running "emerge --sync" for you, to update the overlay as well

[edit] Alternative without using layman

If you don't want to use layman, here is a litte tutorial how to get the newest mobshot and emerge it afterwards: Go to http://www.centerim.org/download/mobshots an search for the newest mobshot. Copy that URL:

 wget http://www.centerim.org/download/mobshots/centerim-4.22.1-<build>-<some number>.tar.gz

Because gentoo search for s.th. like "centerim_pYYYYMMDD" we have to extract it, change the directory and rename the file:

 tar xfz centerim-4.22.1-<build>-<some number>.tar.gz
 mv centerim-4.22.1-<build>-<some number>.tar.gz centerim-4.22.1

Now you should know the build-date of the downloaded mobshot. In the directory-listing of the download-directory on centerim.org you should see it. Now we build again the archive:

 tar cfz centerim-<date of build, e.g. 20071130>.tar.gz centerim-4.22.1

Copy it to the gentoo-distfiles-location

 cp centerim-<date of build, e.g. 20071130>.tar.gz /usr/portage/distfiles/

Now we have to create an ebuild. We just have to copy an old one and change some lines inside. First we change the directory

 cd /usr/portage/net-im/centerim

Now we copy the last ebuild, currently it's centerim-4.22.1_20071103.ebuild

 cp centerim-4.22.1_p<YYYYMMDD>.ebuild centerim-4.22.1_p<date of build, e.g. 20071130>.ebuild

Now we edit the 'new' file, and comment all lines beginnig with "epatch" in the function "src_unpack" out. Here an example, before the edit:

 src_unpack() {
   unpack ${A}
   cd "${S}"
   epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-imotr-config.patch
   epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-ack-sbl.patch
 }

and afterwards:

 src_unpack() {
   unpack ${A}
   cd "${S}"
   #epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-imotr-config.patch
   #epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-ack-sbl.patch
 }

Save and close the file. Now you have to create the Manifest-files

 ebuild centerim-4.22.1_p<date of build, e.g. 20071130>.ebuild digest

Afterwards you should be able to emerge the brandnew mobshot:

 emerge --pretend net-im/centerim

You see a new version with the versionnumber "date of build, e.g. 20071130". Enjoy