Ok, interesting. I think the problem is that I can't get to git:// port due to corporate firewall, 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 8:54 PM To: [email protected] 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" <[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?
