Hello, just quick service announcement about the Logitech Media Server
and Gentoo.
I've been maintaining the ebuilds for LMS (and before that Squeezebox
Server, and before that SlimServer...) for a few years and I'm now
moving the ebuild from the main Portage tree to a new overlay called
'squeezebox' that I maintain. This has little real effect on users of
the ebuild (it's currently exactly the same ebuild as the one in the
main Portage tree), but mitigates some of the problems I had with that
ebuild being in the main tree due to the number of libraries it
bundles.
If you currently use the ebuild then you'll see no difference but you
should enable the 'squeezebox' overlay to ensure you pick up newer
versions as they'll now only be made available via the overlay. The
ebuild will also shortly be removed from the main Portage tree and so it
will only be available via the overlay.
If you don't yet use the ebuild on Gentoo but want to, then you can
emerge it ('logitechmediaserver-bin'), once you've enabled the
'squeezebox' overlay.
If you're unfamiliar with overlays in Gentoo then they're pretty easy
and clear instructions are available here:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml
In summary, if you don't yet use Layman (the tool to manage overlays)
then you can install it as follows (add "dev-vcs/git" to the end if you
don't yet have git installed because this is used to manage the
overlay):
emerge -a app-portage/layman
Once you've got Layman installed you can add the overlay as follows:
layman -a squeezebox
The current version of the ebuild is identical to one currently in
Portage (7.7.2-r2); I'm hoping to include an update to pull in the
latest stable 7.8 development version soon (this has been quite stable
for me).
I'm also going to work up an ebuild for Triode's Squeezelite -- this
will initially be available in this overlay but as I'm currently working
towards becoming an official Gentoo developer I'm hoping to move that
into the main tree soon.
Stuart
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