[mythtv-users] lirc 0.72 ebuild failing

Travis Osterman tosterman at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 20:58:44 EST 2005


> I had the same problem. The newer kenrl (starting with 2.6.13) removed
> some of the classes used in lirc =< 0.7.2. The CVS version worked for me
> and I modified the ebuild to use it. If you're interested you can download
> it from here:
>
> http://www.jehster.net/gentoo/packages/lirc/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.ebuild
>
> and followed the directions here to install it:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds
>
> You'll also have to unmask it by adding "=app-misc/lirc-0.8.0_pre1 ~x86" to
> /etc/portage/package.keywords and emerged it as normal.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Roy

Roy,

Thanks.  I got really close with your overlay, but did get a manifest
error.  Here is the report:

# emerge lirc
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) app-misc/lirc-0.8.0_pre1 to /
>>> Downloading http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2
--20:54:10--  http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2'
Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.238.52,
216.165.129.135, ...
Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|64.50.236.52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
20:54:10 ERROR 404: Not Found.

No digest file available and download failed.

>>> Downloading
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2
--20:54:10--  http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2'
Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... 152.2.210.109
Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org|152.2.210.109|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
20:54:11 ERROR 404: Not Found.

No digest file available and download failed.

>>> Downloading
http://www.jehster.net/gentoo/packages/lirc/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2
--20:54:11--  http://www.jehster.net/gentoo/packages/lirc/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2'
Resolving www.jehster.net... 206.131.223.69
Connecting to www.jehster.net|206.131.223.69|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 620,157 (606K) [application/x-tar]

100%[==================================================>] 620,157     
140.39K/s    ETA 00:00

20:54:15 (134.30 KB/s) -
`/usr/portage/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2' saved [620157/620157]

!!! No package manifest found: /usr/local/portage/app-misc/lirc/Manifest

Do I have to download that separately?  Thanks

-- Travis


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