install an overlay package

ev56o · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 180

hi,
i have a gentoo unlinked from internet and with no /usr/portage folder, i have to install this program:

https://github.com/kunitoki/roxxorx-gentoo-overlay/blob/master/net-misc/vodafone-mobile/vodafone-mobile-2.0-r3.ebuild

i have to pass the files from another pc to the gentoo and work in gentoo.
thanks.

(the portage folder is removed for clean befor eix-sync that wasn' t happened for trouble)

audiodef · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 8:38 pm Post subject:

/usr/portage is essential to Gentoo. Why do you not have this dir?
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ev56o · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 180

the portage folder is removed for clean befor eix-sync.
is it important? i can reinstall manually by the package.tar.gz from the mirrors just now but the main problem now is connect the gentoo box to the internet for do anything and for this i need for that vodafone mobile application.

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21633

You should not remove the /usr/portage directory before syncing. If you do, then your sync downloads the entire tree, which is more expensive in both time and bandwidth.

ev56o · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 180

Yes i will do but now we have to install that program vodafone.

steveL · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 6:00 pm Post subject:

It's impossible to build ebuilds without a /usr/portage tree. Period.

You can prepare binpkgs on another machine and untar them to a host's / though. But you won't be able to use emerge to do so without a tree.

ev56o · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 180

ok i can install the tree, are you saying i will able to install the program vodafone with portage tree but no internet?
if this is it, i will install the tree. OK?
i prefer avoid to prepare binpkgs i' d never tried this and i can' t do now for the first time, if possible i would proced with the portage method.

ct85711 · Veteran Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1791

yes, once you have a portage tree you can install the vodafone-mobile package without a internet as long as you already have the dependency's already installed on the computer and have the package downloaded. In short, if you go and download this https://forge.betavine.net/frs/download.php/267/vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-2.0.beta3.tar.gz and put it into portage overlay distfiles folder (not fully sure on if overlays have their own separate distfiles folder or not, so portage can find it), it won't need the internet to compile it. Again, be sure you have all of the dependencies installed or already downloaded (so portage can install those too). To be nice, in case you didn't check to see what dependencies that package needs, it's listed below (gotten straight from the ebuild file, I did not list any of the dependencies these packages also needs).

steveL · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 8:48 pm Post subject:

What ct85711 said. You can use emerge -f to pre-fetch what you need, according to USE setting; see man emerge.

If your ebuild is from an overlay, either you need to layman -a the overlay or you should copy it to a local overlay, put the files it needs in distfiles, and run repoman manifest in the overlay/cat/pkg dir.

If you do the latter, check its dependencies aren't in the overlay as well: if they are, copy them to your local overlay as well (or just use layman.)

Hmm reminds me, need to update that for repos.conf, I think; feedback appreciated.

ev56o · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 180

ok i did what in the guide you posted and repoman manifest go clean but now i don' t know what to do. should i do emerge -s vodafone?

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21633

You created the overlay incorrectly. You must mirror the layout used in Portage. Specifically, you should not have /usr/local/portage/vodafone-mobile, but rather /usr/local/portage/net-misc/vodafone-mobile. With regard to installing from scratch, I assume you mean you want to install it outside Portage. You could do that, but you would still need to satisfy all the dependencies. You would also be required to manually track where all the files were installed, because Portage can only track what you install through Portage. Generally, if you expect you will ever upgrade or uninstall a package, then you should install it through the package manager.

ev56o · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 180

yes, done. now emerge -s find this ebuild but prompt for missing manifest changelog and metadata.
where i get this file now it' s not present in that site.

steveL · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:43 pm Post subject:

ev56o · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 180

steveL · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:25 pm Post subject:

You have CR-LF terminated lines in the file; they should be Unix line-endings (ie LF or '\n' only.)

You can use:

ev56o · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 180

ok now it works but...