Re: [gentoo-user] installing LTSP

2016-03-15 Thread J. 
El vie, 11-03-2016 a las 13:46 +0100, hw escribió:
> 
> Well, I'm thinking about using another distribution instead.
> Fedora doesn't seem to have ltsp packaged, either, only parts
> of it.  Debian probaly has it packaged, but I'd have to use
> testing to avoid ancient software as much as possible.  Perhaps
> arch is an option ...
> 
> 
I would use Debian the packages seem to be maintained there, A quick
search trough the AUR and Arch packages web pages, didn't showed any
ltsp packages, although if  I needed it I would try to make it work on
gentoo, even if it meant to fork the overlay.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installing LTSP

2016-03-15 Thread J. 
El vie, 11-03-2016 a las 10:49 +0100, hw escribió:
> 
> I think I can get something to work.  I'd rather see ltsp in the
> Gentoo repo rather than as an overlay, and I'd rather use the
> overlay as is.
> 
That overlay is unusable right now, it has been abandoned for more than
 2 years.
> > 
> > Create your own ebuild so you not
> > dependant for the devs to maintain what you like. Also, look around
> > at
> > the other gentoo-derivate OS and see if they have some ltsp hack of
> > an ebuild lying around.   The gentoo attics is your friend [2]
> I don't know how to create packages, and I don't have endless amounts
> of time.  Looking at what Funtoo has might be a good idea, yet they
> don't even have a mailing list.  Otherwise I'd have tried it instead
> of Gentoo ...
> 

If you don't want to fork the overlay and make it work, you better go
to binary distros now, don't try Funtoo you'll find the same.

Re: [gentoo-user] installing LTSP

2016-03-15 Thread Adam Carter 
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:18 PM, hw  wrote:

> hw wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up an ltsp server.  It seems
>> that one of the required packages is no longer
>> available:
>>
>>
>>  >>> Downloading '
>> https://launchpad.net/ltsp/ltspfs-trunk/1.1/+download/ltspfs-1.1.tar.xz'
>> --2016-03-10 18:08:59--
>> https://launchpad.net/ltsp/ltspfs-trunk/1.1/+download/ltspfs-1.1.tar.xz
>> Resolving launchpad.net... 91.189.89.223, 91.189.89.222
>> Connecting to launchpad.net|91.189.89.223|:443... connected.
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
>> 2016-03-10 18:09:00 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>>
>> !!! Couldn't download 'ltspfs-1.1.tar.xz'. Aborting.
>>  [31;01m *  [39;49;00mFetch failed for 'sys-fs/ltspfs-1.1', Log file:
>>  [31;01m *  [39;49;00m '/var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/ltspfs-1.1/temp/build.log'
>>
>>
>> What could I do about this?  Is it possible to
>> install ltspfs manually and somehow to override
>> this requirement?
>>
>
If you can find that .tar.xz file anywhere, then just dump it in
/usr/portage/distfiles, then re-run emerge.

If you really want to get manual (which means you'll need to take care of
dependencies), then you unpack the source, cd into the source directory and
run;
./configure
make
make install

The configure script will have a much of options, and since you'll want to
keep all this non standard stuff in a different directory from the rest
you'll want to specify that. Directories like /opt or /usr/local are often
used for this purpose.