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From: heroxbd@g.o
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Installing Prefix/libc : heroxbd overlay
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:54:33
Message-Id: 86fvamqw4v.fsf@moguhome00.in.awa.tohoku.ac.jp
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Installing Prefix/libc : heroxbd overlay by "McGehee
1 Hey Robert,
2
3 Thank you for trying it out. I tried to get the overlay via layman with
4 success. Could you paste your error message from layman?
5
6 Cheers,
7 Benda
8
9 $ layman -a heroxbd
10
11 * Adding overlay,...
12 * 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 )
13 Cloning into '/gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/var/lib/layman/heroxbd'...
14 remote: Counting objects: 4363, done.
15 remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2950/2950), done.
16 remote: Total 4363 (delta 1306), reused 3815 (delta 1029)
17 Receiving objects: 100% (4363/4363), 3.50 MiB | 1.02 MiB/s, done.
18 Resolving deltas: 100% (1306/1306), done.
19 Checking connectivity... done
20 * Running Git... # ( cd /gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/var/lib/layman/heroxbd && /gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/usr/bin/git config user.name "layman" )
21 * Running Git... # ( cd /gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/var/lib/layman/heroxbd && /gpfshome/home/benda/gnto/usr/bin/git config user.email "layman@localhost" )
22 * Successfully added overlay(s) heroxbd.
23
24 "McGehee, Robert" <Robert.McGehee@××××××××××××.com> writes:
25
26 > I have Gentoo Prefix installed on a Red Hat 5 box, and I'm unable to
27 > install a few packages due to the old glibc on my system. Following
28 > this wiki page (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/libc), I'm hoping
29 > to use heroxbd's overlay to add support for an updated glibc library.
30 >
31 > Unfortunately, for the past few months the overlays.gentoo.org server
32 > appears to be down, and I haven't been able to get the overlay through
33 > layman. This website (http://infra-status.gentoo.org) suggests there
34 > is no ETA.
35 >
36 > So, is the heroxbd overlay available anywhere? If not, can it be added
37 > to github or equivalent?

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