The devnull ebuild repository is a overlay for Gentoo Linux. It is maintained by billl, nico, i92guboj, dodo1122 and tuqs. It includes several ebuilds, the most of them are bleeding edge SCM versions
... [More], the others have not found their way into portage yet.
Support is provided in our IRC channel #/dev/null on irc.rizon.net or in the forum thread at fgo, see the Links below. [Less]
Currently in Gentoo some packages are not updated quickly even if ebuilds for new versions exist. Such ebuilds can stay in Bugzilla for several months (for example, Tkabber).
Here, I will provide
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See LaymanInstall for installation instructions. [Less]
About overlay
Yarik-overlay contains patches and ebuilds for some packages from official tree that still havn't commited. All patches added in Gentoo Bug tracking system.
TrueCrypt was restored in
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How to add overlay
First way. layman -o http://yarik-overlay.googlecode.com/files/yarik-overlay.xml -f -a yarik-overlay
Overlay will added, but won't showed in layman -L list.
Second way. Edit your /etc/layman/layman.cfg and add new overlay list:
overlays : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt
http://yarik-overlay.googlecode.com/files/yarik-overlay.xmlThen you must add yarik-overlay to sync list:
layman -L
layman -a yarik-overlayFor more information about using yarik-overlay and installing TrueCrypt see wiki.
News 2009-10-23 TrueCrypt version bump. Added truecrypt-6.3.ebuild.
2009-09-29 Added openerp-server-5.0.6.ebuild, openerp-web-5.0.6.ebuild, openerp-client-5.0.6.ebuild (fixed bug 267886). Old wpa_supplicant eduilds are removed.
2009-08-20 Added audacious-2.1.ebuild (fixed bug 279820).
2009-06-22 TrueCrypt version bump. Added truecrypt-6.2a.ebuild.
2009-02-04 Added kopete-3.5.9.ebuild (fixed bug 257625). Added gquod-0.2.0.ebuild: version bump.
2009-01-28 Deleted kmuddy-0.8.ebuild because patch is commited in official tree.
Deleted qt-4.3.3.ebuld, audacious-plugins-{1.4.4,1.4.5}.ebuild, plotutils-2.4.1-r4.ebuild because newer versions are stabilized.
2008-12-08 Added kmuddy-0.8.ebuild (fixed bug #249887).
2008-12-02 TrueCrypt version bump. Added truecrypt-6.1a.ebuild (bug #249543).
2008-12-01 Added new game games-board/gquod-0.1.0 (bug #249460). Quod homepage.
2008-11-29 Added plotutils-2.4.1-r4.ebuild (fixed bug 249187).
Added qt-4.3.3.ebuild (fixed bug 218807).
Added audacious-plugins-{1.4.4,1.4.5}.ebuild (fixed bug 247287).
2008-11-28 Added koffice-1.6.3-r2.ebuild compatible with gcc-4.3 (fixed bug 228839). bug 247757 need test.
Added wpa_supplicant-{0.5.7,0.5.8}.ebuild compatible with gcc-4.3 (fixed bug 249049)
2008-11-27 New wiki articles: yarik-overlay, TrueCrypt.
2008-11-26 Added truecrypt-6.1.ebuild compatible with gcc-4.3 (fixed bug 245322). [Less]