On 2025-11-25, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > That's the conclusion I've come to: the ebuild gets updated to match > the "current" version, then it breaks whenever Cisco updates the rpm > file. > >> 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. > > I think you're right. > > Cisco seems to be doing their best to be annoying: > > * There isn't any download archive > > * There is no way to download a specific version > > * There isn't even any way to know what version you are downloading > until after you've downloaded the file and queried it with 'rpm' > (or equivalent).
FWIW, I renamed the .ebuild file to match the current version being provided by Cisco, did an "ebuild manifest", and then it installed just fine. The actual webex app even seems to work fairly well (modulo some minor local-IT breakage). It would be nice if it used the standard freedesktop.org notification system, but that would be expecting a bit too much from a company like Cisco. Now that Ma Bell is gone, somebody has to carry the "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company" mantle. -- Grant
