Using Non-Official ebuilds...

[Cabhan]

Alrighty. I'm trying to use an application called iriverter. Out of the kindness of the developer's heart, he made an unofficial Gentoo ebuild. I am attempting to use it (the source install is not happy, and he recommends trying the ebuild instead). Since I've never used a non-official ebuild before, I'm having a few problems.

I have attempted using the instructions at:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...?part=3&chap=5

Here is what I have done:

- I created the /usr/local/portage/media-video directory.
- I placed the iriverter-0.14.ebuild file into the above directory.
- In /etc/make.conf, I declared PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage/
- I ran emerge --sync

Now, when I attempt

emerge iriverter -pv
emerge media-video/iriverter -pv
emerge =iriverter-0.14 -pv
emerge =media-video/iriverter-0.14 -pv

None of these work. They tell me that the ebuild doesn't exist.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks.

[lakerdonald]

For now, just do:

ebuild /usr/local/portage/media-video/.../foo.ebuild merge

Also, you wouldn't happen to be doing this through sudo or something similar?

[Cabhan]

tux media-video # ebuild iriverter-0.14.ebuild merge
Disabling noauto in features... merge disables it. (qmerge doesn't)
!!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'portage/iriverter-0.14' not specified:
!!!            None
!!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'portage/iriverter-0.14' not specified:
!!!            None
doebuild(): aux_get() error reading portage/iriverter-0.14; aborting.

No, I do it as root (with su).

So, is this an error with the ebuild? Or an error that should never happen?

[Cabhan]

I AM RETARDED!!

The entire error was that the ebuild was at:

/usr/local/portage/media-video

and not

/usr/local/portage/media-video/iriverter/

I hate computers...