[gentoo-alt] Re: Installing Prefix/libc : heroxbd overlay

[Michael Haubenwallner]

On 02/04/2015 02:47 PM, McGehee, Robert wrote:
> Ok, interesting. I think the problem is that I can't get to git:// port due to corporate firewall,

In case you're able to ssh somewhere outside the firewall, you can use this one:

  $ ( echo '#! /bin/sh'; echo 'ssh -W $1:$2' your-outside-machine ) > ~/proxycmd
  $ chmod +x ~/proxycmd

And then do the git commands with:

  $ GIT_PROXY_COMMAND=~/proxycmd git ...

/haubi/

> so I've been switching the address to http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/... rather than git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/...
> I believe this functionality worked a few months ago (and it works now on github), but doesn't appear to work on the
> overlays server now. When I try to use the http port, I get a 503 error:
>
> git clone http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/dev/heroxbd.git
> Cloning into 'heroxbd'...
> fatal: unable to access 'http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/dev/heroxbd.git/': The requested URL returned error: 503
>
> I had assumed that access through both http and git ports were unavailable, but as I can only test http, this is clearly not the case. In fact, the distinction is clearly made on http://infra-status.gentoo.org that "gitweb" is down, but I did not initially understand the meaning.
>
> Ok, so unless something I said seems wrong or there is a http git server that hosts overlays/heroxbd, I'll try to figure out a work around on my end. Sorry for the noise!
>
> --Robert
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: heroxbd@g.o [mailto:heroxbd@g.o]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 8:54 PM
> To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Installing Prefix/libc : heroxbd overlay
>
> Hey Robert,
>
> Thank you for trying it out.  I tried to get the overlay via layman with
> success.  Could you paste your error message from layman?
>
> Cheers,
> Benda
>
> $ layman -a heroxbd
>
>  * Adding overlay,...
>  * Running Git... # ( cd /gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/var/lib/layman  && /gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/usr/bin/git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/dev/heroxbd.git /gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/var/lib/layman/heroxbd )
> Cloning into '/gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/var/lib/layman/heroxbd'...
> remote: Counting objects: 4363, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2950/2950), done.
> remote: Total 4363 (delta 1306), reused 3815 (delta 1029)
> Receiving objects: 100% (4363/4363), 3.50 MiB | 1.02 MiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (1306/1306), done.
> Checking connectivity... done
>  * Running Git... # ( cd /gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/var/lib/layman/heroxbd  && /gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/usr/bin/git config user.name "layman" )
>  * Running Git... # ( cd /gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/var/lib/layman/heroxbd  && /gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/usr/bin/git config user.email "layman@localhost" )
>  * Successfully added overlay(s) heroxbd.
>
> "McGehee, Robert" <Robert.McGehee@××××××××××××.com> writes:
>
>> I have Gentoo Prefix installed on a Red Hat 5 box, and I'm unable to
>> install a few packages due to the old glibc on my system. Following
>> this wiki page (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/libc), I'm hoping
>> to use heroxbd's overlay to add support for an updated glibc library.
>>
>> Unfortunately, for the past few months the overlays.gentoo.org server
>> appears to be down, and I haven't been able to get the overlay through
>> layman. This website (http://infra-status.gentoo.org) suggests there
>> is no ETA.
>>
>> So, is the heroxbd overlay available anywhere? If not, can it be added
>> to github or equivalent?
>
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