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new awesome version 3.3 rc3 – [gentoo] in wirelay

wired — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:10:30 +0000

a new rc version of awesome, 3.3 rc3, has been released. lots of bugfixes and it also feels faster

I’ve created an ebuild based on the one in portage.

You can find it in my overlay, wirelay, masked.

for instructions on how to add wirelay to layman, check the Documentation in the overlay or this post:

http://www.linuxized.com/2009/04/private-overlay-eyes-only/

Unfortunately this version requires stuff not in the main portage tree, so you’ll have to add the “x11″ overlay

layman -a x11

I’ve also opened a bug in Gentoo’s bugtracker with the ebuild:

bug #270794 [ebuild] awesome-3.3_rc3

Lots of config changes in this version, so in my upcoming awesome+conky how-to I’ll give you two seperate config files =]

awesome 3.3_rc3 with conky-updated panels

Overlays and >=portage-2.2_rc29 – what to do when overlay stuff breaks only for you

wired — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:45:42 +0000

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 don’t, you might end up with broken packages, depending on the overlay. You should check out the overlay’s guides and/or chat with the developers to find out if overriding is necessary/optional.

To tell portage to use the kde-testing overlay’s eclasses [if any], create the file:
/etc/portage/repos.conf

with the following content:

[gentoo] eclass-overrides = kde

We’re using “kde” instead of “kde-testing”, because that’s the actual overlay name (found in OVERLAY_FOLDER/profiles/repo_name)

For more information on this issue, read gentoo bug #265747

Private overlay… Eyes only!

wired — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:10:44 +0000

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 yet (and maybe never will). I also keep ebuilds of the latest nvidia drivers and other stuff

To browse the overlay, visit http://github.com/wired/wirelay/tree/master

To add the overlay, install layman ( emerge -av layman ) then run:

layman -f -o http://github.com/wired/wirelay/raw/master/Documentation/wirelay.list -a wirelay