Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big problem: Seamonkey

2015-11-19 Thread Todd Goodman
* Raffaele BELARDI [151119 10:45]: > Todd Goodman wrote: > > I believe using PORTDIR_OVERLAY is now deprecated and overlays are > > configured in /etc/portage/repos.conf/* > > > > Check out: > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay/Local_overlay > > Good to know, I suppose the bit: > >ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big problem: Seamonkey

2015-11-19 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Todd Goodman wrote: > I believe using PORTDIR_OVERLAY is now deprecated and overlays are > configured in /etc/portage/repos.conf/* > > Check out: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay/Local_overlay Good to know, I suppose the bit: root # repoman manifest is equivalent to: root # ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big problem: Seamonkey

2015-11-19 Thread Todd Goodman
* Raffaele BELARDI [151119 10:24]: > Alan Grimes wrote: > > Okay, since just dumping the legacy e-build into the portage tree would > > be too easy, it was prevented. How do I build an ebuild out-of-tree? =( > > > > create a portage overlay and put your ebuild in there, then mask > seamonkey > 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big problem: Seamonkey

2015-11-19 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Alan Grimes wrote: > Okay, since just dumping the legacy e-build into the portage tree would > be too easy, it was prevented. How do I build an ebuild out-of-tree? =( > create a portage overlay and put your ebuild in there, then mask seamonkey > 2.38 in package.mask: $ ll /usr/portage/local/myg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big problem: Seamonkey

2015-11-19 Thread Alan Grimes
Okay, since just dumping the legacy e-build into the portage tree would be too easy, it was prevented. How do I build an ebuild out-of-tree? =( I've kinda wanted to know how to do this for years but was too lazy to track down the information but these later versions of Seamonkey are so crashtastic

[gentoo-user] Re: Big problem: Seamonkey

2015-11-18 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:54:23 -0500 Alan Grimes wrote: > Hey, both Seamonkey 2.38 and 2.39 are unstable to the point of being > utterly unusable, I need to re-install 2.35 but it has already been > removed from Portage, HELP!! > > There are some mutterings on the upstream bugtracker about it bein