On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait >> for upstream to update the ebuild or to update it myself. How >> difficult would the latter be? > > If the package just moved from media-tv to virtual it's easy: > > You should make a private overlay and copy the ebuild with the > dependency there: > > mkdir /var/lib/layman/myoverlay/ mkdir > /var/lib/layman/myoverlay/profile echo "myoverlay" > > /var/lib/layman/myoverlay/profile/repo_name # Overlay is ready # > add /var/lib/layman/myoverlay/ to /var/lib/layman/make.conf (using > you favorite editor. If you make it the last entry it'll override > other overlays.
Thanks, looks easy but I need to look into layman and overlays, I've never approached that before. In the meantime I found that another option is to auto-generate ebuilds from the mythtv overlay: http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2011-February/309883.html raf
