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" <[email protected]> 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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