Problems installing old nvidia-drivers ebuild

[majoron]

Hello,
The story goes as follows: I need to run some software on a Nvidia Tesla s1070. I tried (almost) all nvidia-drivers ebuilds in the official portage tree and it doesn't work (one very old version of the package cannot be installed).
I go to Nvidia site and see that the recommended drivers version is 270.41.34, whcih as far as I know was never in portage, but also version 256.53 should support the card we have, and it was once upon a time in the portage tree. So I try to install the package. For that I did:

• Add

  Code:

  PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"

  to

  Code:

  /etc/portage/make.conf

  
  
• Create the

  Code:

  /usr/local/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

  directory
  
• Download the old ebuild from attic
  
• And run the following command:

  Code:

  ebuild /usr/local/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.53.ebuild manifest

  
  

However this last command produces an error:

[steveL]

I would start with an ebuild closer to the one you want, and then bump the EAPI, as well as the version (latter by simply changing the filename). Though you should compare with later ebuilds that do use a supported EAPI (4 and above iirc) and ask in #gentoo-dev-help on IRC: chat.freenode.org for help and review.

[majoron]