> I had the same problem. The newer kenrl (starting with 2.6.13) removed > some of the classes used in lirc =< 0.7.2. The CVS version worked for me > and I modified the ebuild to use it. If you're interested you can download > it from here: > > http://www.jehster.net/gentoo/packages/lirc/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.ebuild > > and followed the directions here to install it: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds > > You'll also have to unmask it by adding "=app-misc/lirc-0.8.0_pre1 ~x86" to > /etc/portage/package.keywords and emerged it as normal. > > Hope it helps, > Roy
Roy, Thanks. I got really close with your overlay, but did get a manifest error. Here is the report: # emerge lirc Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-misc/lirc-0.8.0_pre1 to / >>> Downloading http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2 --20:54:10-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2' Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.236.52, 64.50.238.52, 216.165.129.135, ... Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|64.50.236.52|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 20:54:10 ERROR 404: Not Found. No digest file available and download failed. >>> Downloading http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2 --20:54:10-- http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2' Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... 152.2.210.109 Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org|152.2.210.109|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 20:54:11 ERROR 404: Not Found. No digest file available and download failed. >>> Downloading http://www.jehster.net/gentoo/packages/lirc/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2 --20:54:11-- http://www.jehster.net/gentoo/packages/lirc/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2' Resolving www.jehster.net... 206.131.223.69 Connecting to www.jehster.net|206.131.223.69|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 620,157 (606K) [application/x-tar] 100%[==================================================>] 620,157 140.39K/s ETA 00:00 20:54:15 (134.30 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/lirc-0.8.0_pre1.tar.bz2' saved [620157/620157] !!! No package manifest found: /usr/local/portage/app-misc/lirc/Manifest Do I have to download that separately? Thanks -- Travis _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
