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The first fosscomm day (in ATEI of Larisa) is over with great success We (the gentoo team) hosted a workshop showing off gentoo’s installation process and portage features using the gentoo handbook as a guide. Time was limited and we didn’t manage to finish it, but I think we touched some people when we explained [...]
KDE 4.2.3 was officially released today It’s already available in gentoo’s kde-testing overlay and will be added in portage’s tree really really soon update: 4.2.3 is now in the portage tree =]
Some changes in KDE’s svn repository broke some live gentoo ebuilds today… This happened because some applications (namely ark and nepomuk) now depend on a new package in extragear/libs called libknotificationitem. I’ve made the necessary modifications in gentoo’s kde-testing overlay to fix the issue by adding a new ebuild for libknotificationitem and adding libknotificationitem DEPEND [...]
Recent versions of portage have brought some confusion with overlays and overriding eclasses. Due to QA issues, zmedico has decided to disable automatic eclass overrides from overlays. This means that if, for example, you’re using the “kde-testing” overlay, you’ll have to manually tell portage to use any updated eclasses available in the overlay. If you [...]
Tampakrap and I have been working to make KDE 3 out-of-kde-base applications install and work alongside KDE 4. Most of the work is now done. The eclasses have gained EAPI 2 support, tampakrap converted the misc apps to EAPI 2, we killed some eclass bugs that made some kde-base packages fail and @kde-3.5 and other [...]
I now have my personal gentoo overlay over at github. For those not familiar with overlays, they are something like a “repository”. They allow you to add and use ebuilds out of the official portage tree. In my overlay, called “wirelay”, I usually add fixes from bugs.gentoo.org that I need which haven’t reached the tree [...]