LOGITECH MEDIA SERVER EBUILDS FOR GENTOO This Git repository contains development versions of Logitech Media Server ebuilds for Gentoo Linux. This generally contains development or soon-to-be-released versions of the ebuild that will later be in the official Portage tree, and can be tracked to get early access to those ebuilds before they go through review and commit to Portage. Because of this, however, these ebuilds are definitely to be considered experimental as they are often broken. This is the binary package version and supersedes the compiled source form package media-sound/squeezeboxserver. BRANCHES The following branches will be of interest to you: master - this is generally where the latest releases of ebuilds are committed at the same time that I submit them for review and inclusion in Portage. Ebuilds committed here should work because I only submit them for review and inclusion when I've given them some level of local testing. Releases committed here are tagged to identify their version numbers (see below). Only the latest ebuilds for the most recent server versions are committed here - eg once Squeezebox Server 7.4 was released there were no more 7.3.3 ebuilds committed to master (these remained on the develop-7.3 branches). feature/xxx (eg "feature/7.7.2") - these branches are where development for a particular server release occurs. There will generally be a number of commits during the development of a particular ebuild version and, therefore, the ebuild is often broken during this process. It's therefore wise not to simply track the latest commits on these branches (unless you like some excitement), but instead look at when releases are merged back to master and tagged. Updated ebuilds for 'old' versions remain on these branches (and are tagged on these branches) to avoid the master from jumping backwards and forwards between ebuild versions. Branches are managed by git-flow, so the normal naming and uses of branches and tags apply. TAGS I tag the releases on master (and updates to old ebuilds on their development branch as discussed above), when they are submitted for review and inclusion in Portage. Tagged releases are generally more reliable than any intermediate committed version you may come across because I will give them some level of local testing before tagging and release. USING THESE EBUILDS The "media-sound/logitechmediaserver-bin" subdirectory contains an image of the ebuild tree. If you want to try this version of the ebuild out then installing this directory is the most convenient way of doing it. 1. Copy "media-sound/logitechmediaserver-bin" to "/usr/local/portage/media-sound/logitechmediaserver-bin" 2. Generate the "Manifest" file for the ebuild: ebuild /usr/local/portage/media-sound/logitechmediaserver-bin/lo* digest 3. Ensure that /etc/make.conf includes the local Portage tree so that this makefile is found. Do that with a line such as the following: PORTDIR_OVERLAY="$PORTDIR_OVERLAY /usr/local/portage" 4. Unmask the ebuild (since it is probably marked as unstable) with a line like the following in /etc/portage/package.keywords: /media-sound/logitechmediaserver-bin ~x86 5. Install the package as normal with a command such as: emerge -aDvt logitechmediaserver-bin Once you have done this once you can update to later versions of the ebuild by just redoing steps 1 and 2. Enjoy. Stuart Hickinbottom stuart@hickinbottom.com
hickinbottoms/logitechmediaserver-bin-ebuild-for-gentoo
A binary ebuild for the Logitech Media Server (formerly Squeezebox Server, formerly Squeezecenter, formerly SlimServer, formerly...)
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