[gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
I've just tried to emerge the svn ebuild of madwifi-ng after a kernel update. I have previously merged this so I have working sources in $DISTDIR/svn-src but svn.madwifi.org is down. The emerge bails out when it is unable to contact the server, when I would prefer it to use the existing sources.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 15:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: I've just tried to emerge the svn ebuild of madwifi-ng after a kernel update. I have previously merged this so I have working sources in $DISTDIR/svn-src but svn.madwifi.org is down. The emerge bails out when it is unable to contact the

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:48:22 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: None of the madwifi-ng ebuilds in my portage tree have an svn source. I'd be surprised if they did because the Gentoo devs generally discourage subversion/cvs/etc. ebuilds. It's in an overlay, the portage ebuilds don't support my card.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Johann Schmitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: | I was hoping someone already knew a workaround, otherwise it makes it | impossible to build from source you have already downloaded and verified, | which sounds like a bug to me! Hm. Edit the ebuild and temporarily disable the

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/7/2, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've just tried to emerge the svn ebuild of madwifi-ng after a kernel update. I have previously merged this so I have working sources in $DISTDIR/svn-src but svn.madwifi.org is down. The emerge bails out when it is unable to contact the server, when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:10:58 +0200, Johann Schmitz wrote: | I was hoping someone already knew a workaround, otherwise it makes it | impossible to build from source you have already downloaded and | verified, which sounds like a bug to me! Hm. Edit the ebuild and temporarily disable the

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: I've just tried to emerge the svn ebuild of madwifi-ng after a kernel update. I have previously merged this so I have working sources in $DISTDIR/svn-src but svn.madwifi.org is down. The emerge bails out when it is unable to contact the server,

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:50:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: There's an env var, something like ESVN_SERVER, that you can set to offline, and if the ebuild inherits the svn eclass, it won't try to checkout new sources. Thanks Alan. The variable is ESVN_OFFLINE, which you set to anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:37:39 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I have not tried this myself but you can try to copy $DISTDIR/svn-src to $WORKDIR and use 'ebuild name-of-the-ebuild.ebuild {install,qmerge}' to install it manually. See 'man ebuild' for reference. I was about to try this when Alan's

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:37:39 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I have not tried this myself but you can try to copy $DISTDIR/svn-src to $WORKDIR and use 'ebuild name-of-the-ebuild.ebuild {install,qmerge}' to install it manually. See 'man ebuild' for reference. I was about

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:37:39 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I have not tried this myself but you can try to copy $DISTDIR/svn-src to $WORKDIR and use 'ebuild name-of-the-ebuild.ebuild {install,qmerge}' to install