brave-overlay falling out-of-date

figueroa · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:41 am Post subject: brave-overlay falling out-of-date

With critical updates being made to the Brave browser, the brave-overlay is falling behind (Currently at 1.57.57). Does anybody know who actually maintains it? The name and email listed in the brave-bin ebuild metadata.xml isn't it. I know that because I have corresponded with the person listed in the metadata.

The AppImage at https://github.com/srevinsaju/Brave-AppImage is up-to-date and seems sound but I'm certainly not qualified to audit it. Anybody here using it?
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Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2720

Seems to be at 1.58.127:
https://gitlab.com/jason.oliveira/brave-overlay/-/tree/master/www-client/brave-bin

Note that Gentoo's mirror of it was disabled (no longer getting updated) because email had no bugzilla account associated with it to file bugs (the primary way of contact, so ends up being unnotified). So may want to either use that one directly, or contact the overlay to get it re-added to gentoo's repositories.xml after sorting the email issue out.

figueroa · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:55 am Post subject:

Ionen, thanks for the info, but it's over my head. How would I "use it directly." Would that mean manually keeping up with version changes?
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Andy Figueroa
hp pavilion hpe h8-1260t/2AB5; spinning rust x3
i7-2600 @ 3.40GHz; 16 gb; Radeon HD 7570
amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop (stable), OpenRC, -systemd -pulseaudio -uefi

rfx · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 7:05 am Post subject:

Oh no, then that seems to be the reason why I couldn't add the overlay the "previous" way when I reinstalled Gentoo last week (15.9). https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1107202-start-25.html

I am excited which way it will continue. Sometimes, as a non-developer who can't write own ebuilds, it's not that easy with Gentoo

grknight · Retired Dev Joined: 20 Feb 2015 Posts: 1662

figueroa · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:13 pm Post subject:

Thanks, the link Ionen provided and your instructions, grknight, helped a lot. I shot myself in the foot, but after cleaning up, it got better. First I tried, being unskilled: