KDE overlay

dolphinaura · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 145

Im curious. How stable is the current kde 4.5.1 overlay? (I cant add it right now, because the gentoo overlays are down, but planning on trying it later?)
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ssteinberg · Apprentice Joined: 09 Jul 2010 Posts: 206 Location: Israel

Works smoothly so far for me.

Voltago · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: KDE overlay

root_tux_linux · l33t Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 966

Yeah overlays.gentoo.org is down :/

want my kde 4.5.1 :/
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Manko10 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Aug 2010 Posts: 105

I'm using KDE 4.5.0 and am gonna upgrade soon but the only problem I noticed with this build is that KDE sometimes hangs on shutdown. I get a message that knotify4 has crashed and then only an ACPI event can kill KDE. But this problem is not reliably reproducible.
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jbouzan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 138

I've always used KDE overlay, because when I first installed Gentoo portage didn't have the latest version and the overlay did. Problems have been rare, except for the mirrors not having the files if you emerge an updated version too quickly. Does anyone else notice, though, that eix-update takes forever on the KDE overlay? Much longer than it does on the main tree.

Manko10 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Aug 2010 Posts: 105

Yep. KDE overlay is not in your dependency cache but you can speed up your eix-update when you first do an emerge --regen. Normally you shouldn't do this but for KDE overlay it seems to be necessary.
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dolphinaura · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 145

does anyone know when the overylays are going to be up again? or how I can manually add the kde overlay?
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xaviermiller · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:28 pm Post subject:

see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335509
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dolphinaura · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 145

overlays back up. (pingable)
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hunky · l33t Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 910 Location: Alaska

I've tried the overlay a few times but each time I have to redo my sets. Portage puts them in /etc/portage/sets whereas when I added the overlay - I got messages about sets being all screwed up. So had to convert them to place that the overlay liked. Not sure if that is still the case or I was doing something wrong.. how do folk manage it nowadays - is it just as easy as doing a mv on portage sets to where-ever overlay wants 'em?

[edit] oh yeah, and editing make.conf to point to overlay was necessary - maybe not so much now?

thx, JD

hedmo · Veteran Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 1305 Location: sweden

i am using trunk and even that works super

kornhs4 · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:47 pm Post subject:

Use kde-4.5.1 since 8 hours without any problem so far. The only issue I had was that icons did not show up in the system tray. It helped to delete /var/tmp/kdecache-USERNAME. However, no crash, no weird behaviour so far.
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geaaru · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 73

Hi, i have upgrade my env to kde-4.5.1 with nvidia quadro fX2800 but is unstable.
Before upgradeo to nvidia-driver 256.53 computer freeze was happens often. Then with upgrade, freeze of my laptop happens only sometime.

I will downgrade to kde-4.4.5 ASAP. :'(

I will hope for a 4.5.2 version...

Bye