On Tue, 9 May 2006 23:51:33 -0700 Robert Persson <ireneshusband@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 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 Hi Robert, could you please post the error message you get from ebuild's digest verification? Maybe directly in the thread on the forums, not here on the list. I smell a problem with arch portage vs. ~arch portage's new SHA256 digest method on some ebuilds... also other tweaks, fixes etc are allways very welcome! Regards, Tom (gimpel)
