Gentoo Ebuilds
Bitcetera Overlay
This is a development overlay which contains a few ebuilds for Gentoo Linux we are working on. All of them are in a flux and not supported, you use them at your own risk!
Some of the ebuilds are mirrored to other overlays once they are tested to some degree. You find mail-filter/postwhite and app-misc/heyu in the Gentoo Sunrise Overlay whereas app-net/callweaver and app-net/zaptel are part of the Gentoo VoIP Overlay.
Our hardware is based on amd64 and we can't test the ebuilds on other architectures. Please drop us a line with your observations.
Available Development Ebuilds
| Ebuild | Version | Description
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| mail-filter/postwhite | 0.1.0 | Policy server for Postfix MTA which filters incoming emails based on per recipient whitelists managed by an email frontend (more).
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| app-net/callweaver | 1.2.0.1 | Community-driven vendor-independent cross-platform Open Source PBX software (more).
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| app-net/zaptel | 1.4.11 | Drivers for Digium and ZapataTelephony cards (more).
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| app-misc/heyu | 2.3.2 | Utility to control and program CM11A, CM17A and CM12U X10 interfaces (more).
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| sys-auth/otpw | 1.3.1 | Generator and PAM module for one-time password lists with a user-defined static password prefix (more).
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Installation
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One-time Preparation
The Bitcetera overlay is available from a Git repository over HTTPS. Thus if necessary install git:
USE="iconv webdav subversion bash-completion" emerge -av dev-util/git
IMPORTANT The SSL certificate is signed by the non-profit CAcert certificate authority, therefore follow this guide to add the root certificate of CAcert before you continue.
If necessary install layman which will manage overlays for you:
emerge -av layman
Append the following line to /etc/make.conf thus telling Portage that you wish to use overlays:
source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf
Edit the overlay line in /etc/layman/layman.cfg to look something like:
overlays: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt
https://git.bitcetera.com/gentoo.git/layman.xml
Add the overlay and retrieve the actual overlay data:
layman -a bitcetera
You might wish to add a cronjob to make sure your overlays get synchronized on a daily basis:
crontab -e
00 05 * * * layman -s ALL
Emerge
Emerging an ebuild from overlays is done the same way as regular ebuilds. Replace {EBUILD} with the actual name (i.e. app-misc/heyu):
emerge -av {EBUILD}This will fail if your architecture is not listed as stable above. You may override this and give it a shot nonetheless. If you are - let's say - on ppc and would like to try emerging an ebuild with keyword ~amd64, you have to add the following line to /etc/portage/package.keywords:
{EBUILD} ~amd64