Bin-Ebuilds for Grails, Groovy, Gant, & Eclipse-3.4

Eclipse-3.4 has been out for some time. Unfortunately, the Gentoo-Java maintainer was devaway for a while and couldn't make an ebuild to build Eclipse-3.4 from source. Hence Gentoo bug #229609.

I say "to hell with building Eclipse from source" ... especially not for me, being an EEE PC user :)

For those who would just like the binary package for Eclipse 3.4 (eclipse-sdk-bin), and for those who may also be interested in groovy-bin, grails-bin, or gant-bin, try this out:

echo "dev-portage/eclipse-sdk-bin" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://virtb.visibleassets.com:2080/geeentoo/packages/All" \
FEATURES="getbinpkg" \
emerge -Kav1 =dev-util/eclipse-sdk-bin-3.4

For installing dev-java/grails-bin, dev-java/groovy-bin, or dev-java/gant-bin simply substitute the package name in the commands above.

Note: dev-java/grails-bin already contains precompiled Gant and Groovy jars, in order to run grails, but it doesn't support Groovy or Gant from the command line. If you need a command-line Groovy or Gant, then install groovy-bin or gant-bin as well.

As usual, you can download any of my Portage overlays with the command below (requires app-portage/layman).

layman -o http://virtb.visibleassets.com:2080/layman.conf -L -v --nocolor | less

Then use the '/' search function of the pager application 'less' to look for the string 'virtb' and you should be able to see my repositories. I guess for security purposes, and the fact that mine are not official gentoo overlays, they are not displayed by default unless you specify the '-v' option to layman.

You can add the overlay with

layman -o http://virtb.visibleassets.com:2080/layman.conf -a [overlayName]

Currently, overlayName can be one of "vuze-bin, eclipse, grails-groovy-gant, eee". If you'd like to check out any of my other overlays (mainly for ARM development), try using http://vaiprime.visibleassets.com/~cfriedt/layman.conf .

VAI Prime Overlays Accessible Via Layman

After making my vuze-bin overlay accessible via layman, I decided to apply the same approach to my ts72xx related overlays on VAI Prime.

You can see the overlays via layman with

layman -o http://vaiprime.visibleassets.com/~cfriedt/layman.conf -i [overlay-name]

So far, the available overlay-names are as follows:

• jvmcp (Miniaturized Java environment suitable for the ts72xx boards)
  
  • custom JamVM (1.5.1)
  • custom GNU Classpath (0.97.1)
• vai (mainly custom apps for the ts72xx)
• custom JamVM (1.5.1)
• custom GNU Classpath (0.97.1)
• custom battery monitor
• maverick (overlays necessary for creating a EABI/MaverickCrunch toolchain for the ts72xx)
• patched binutils
• patched gcc
• patched crossdev
• patched uclibc
• ts72xx (overlay of applications for the ts72xx)
• patched fastjar
• patched busybox
• patched screen
• patched portage-utils
• patched bash
• patched java-config
• patched jamvm
• patched rxtx
• patched ant-core
• patched ant-eclipse-ecj
• patched eclipse-ecj
• patched gnu-classpath
• patched mpfr
• patched nfs-utils
• patched libnfsidmap
• patched openvpn
• patched dropbear
• patched wpa_supplicant
• patched binutils (2.15)
• patched gcc (3.4.6
• patched db
• patched psmisc
• ts72xxtc (binary-compatible toolchain for factory TS filesystem)
• patched glibc
• patched linux-headers

It would probably be wise to move at least the binutils and gcc from ts72xx to ts27xxtc.

Anyway, check out the overlay with

layman -o http://vaiprime.visibleassets.com/~cfriedt/layman.conf

Vuze-bin Overlay for the Gentoo Community

I thought I'd make my Vuze ebuild available to the rest of the world. Vuze (formerly Azureus before version 3.1.0.0) is the name of a pretty great Java BitTorrent client. This overlay contains ebuilds, launchers, and .desktop entries file for installing vuze-bin-3.1.0.0 and vuze-bin-3.1.1.0 .

Download the overlay here

Don't forget to check the md5sum with 'md5sum vuze_overlay.tar.bz2'. The md5 sum should be 9fc2955cb63a1404f1a35643b38d8085.

To install vuze-bin you have two options,

1) If you are not using layman

mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/vuze_overlay && \
wget -O - http://virtb.visibleassets.com:2080/vuze_overlay.tar.bz2 | \
tar xpvjf - -C /usr/local/portage/vuze_overlay && \
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" \
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage/vuze_overlay \
emerge -av1 vuze-bin

2) If you're using layman (thanks to Donnie Berkholz)

layman -o http://virtb.visibleassets.com:2080/layman.conf -a vuze-bin

Enjoy!