On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wanted to try the Webex app for Linux. Searching overlays found an > ..ebuild in the 'seden' overlay. I looked through the .ebuild, and at > first glance it looked OK. I enabled the overlay, unmasked the > package, and did an `emerge -av webex`. It failed because the webex > ..rpm file downloaded from Cisco didn't match the specs in the Manifist > file. > > AFAICT, the ebuild downlaods the latest Cicso .rpm file from > > https://binaries.webex.com/WebexDesktop-CentOS-Official-Package/Webex.rpm > > Then it renames that file so that the filename contains a hard-wired > older version number (45.6.2.32823). Then it fails because the > downloaded file (which is currently version 45.10.0.33234-1) doesn't > match the Manifest data for that older version (45.6.2.32823). > > How on earth could that be expected to work?
I just checked the Git history for net-im/webex from https://cgit.gentoo.org/user/seden.git, and that plus [1] makes me think Sven just updates the ebuild every so often. If Cisco doesn't have an archive of past versions, then there might not be much better in terms of strategy for this particular ebuild? I dunno. [1]: https://help.webex.com/en-us/article/9vstcdb/Webex-App-for-Linux -- D. Ben Knoble
