Due to a switch from Kallithea to GitLab we changed the version control system for our overlay from Mercurial to Git and updated the URLs. On next sync, layman should automatically detect the change, delete the old repository and check out the new one. However, you will be asked to confirm re-adding the overlay on next sync. The sync may report having failed; just sync again in that case.
If it does not work automatically for you try the following steps:
layman -d megacoffee
layman -f
layman -LYou should now find our repository listed with Git as type and with a GitLab URL:
* megacoffee [Git ] (https://gitlab.megacoffee.net/gentoo-overlay/megacoffee-overlay.git)Just add our overlay again after that:
layman -a megacoffeeIf you experience any issues please let us know. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
At this unofficial place, we publish some ebuilds that may (or may not) be interesting to other Gentoo users. What we serve here are
All these ebuilds should be considered experimental. As we collect them from other sources (in accordance to the licenses), you are of course free to copy ours as well.
The easiest way is to use layman to connect with us.
First, get layman if you haven't done so already:
emerge layman # and follow instructions for /etc/make.confWe are on the official layman repository list, so all you need to do is:
layman -f once to update the repository list.megacoffee to your local installation by running layman -a megacoffee and confirming with y - you should see an output similar to this:
# layman -a megacoffee
* Adding overlay...
* Overlay "megacoffee" is not official. Continue installing? [y/n]: y
* Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman && /usr/bin/git clone https://gitlab.megacoffee.net/gentoo-overlay/megacoffee-overlay.git /var/lib/layman/megacoffee )
Cloning into '/var/lib/layman/megacoffee'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1368, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1368/1368), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (617/617), done.
remote: Total 1368 (delta 669), reused 1365 (delta 669), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (1368/1368), 1015.12 KiB | 5.83 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (669/669), done.
* Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/megacoffee && /usr/bin/git config user.name "layman" )
* Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/megacoffee && /usr/bin/git config user.email "layman@localhost" )
* Successfully added overlay(s) megacoffee.
layman -S whenever you want to check for updates.
If you're a very long-time user of our repository, you may still have added http://gentoo-overlay.megacoffee.net/repositories.xml to your /etc/layman/layman.cfg. You can safely remove that entry.
At this place we keep you informed about what ebuilds are available and why we added them, and what you should know about them if there's something special (such as "recovered" files from official Gentoo portage tree).
| Category/Name | Maintainer | Version(s) | Comment |
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| app-admin/boinc-status | dneuge | 3.10 | boinc-status is a bash script to monitor BOINC |
| app-admin/boinctui-extended | dneuge | 1.0.2, 9999[M] | boinctui-extended is a curses-based terminal BOINC client manager |
| app-backup/backup2l | dneuge | 1.5, 1.4 |
backup2l is a simple and easy to setup backup script This is a slightly modified version of the ebuild posted to official Bugzilla by user "Will" in 2007. (Bug #167249) |
| app-crypt/acmetool | dneuge | 0.2.2, 0.2.1, 0.0.58, 9999[M] |
acmetool is a command line tool for automatically acquiring certificates from ACME servers Original ebuild for 0.0.58 copied from jmesmon overlay and patched to work after repository was renamed. Version 0.2.1 supports ACME v2. Officially, 0.2.1 still has beta status but this is your only chance to continue using acmetool. Update may require a new account to be configured; see this blog post. Requires go-overlay to be added via layman.
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| app-misc/qutescoop | dneuge | 2.2_pre20201118[M], 9999[M] | QuteScoop is a status monitor for VATSIM. |
| app-office/softmaker-office | dneuge | 2021-1062, 2021-1060, 2021-1034 |
SoftMaker Office is an office suite featuring a word processor (TextMaker), spreadsheets (PlanMaker) and slides software (Presentations). Note that this ebuild installs the regular commercial version (i.e. not FreeOffice) which offers a 30-day trial upon installation. Check the website for information on available licensing options. |
| kde-plasma/breeze | dneuge | 5.27.5 5.27.4 |
Breeze visual style for the Plasma desktop Copied from main Gentoo Portage repository. This ebuild adds the patch published as merge request 292 if patch_outline is enabled in order to make the border more configurable and restore previous borderless rendering. The patched ebuild is necessary because current state of discussions indicates that there will be no further release restoring previous rendering before KDE Plasma 6.
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| media-gfx/trimage | dneuge | 1.0.6 | Trimage, a GUI for PNG and JPEG optimization via optipng, pngcrush, advpng and jpegoptim |
| media-libs/blackmagic-desktop-video | dneuge | 12.4.1 12.2.2 |
Desktop Video - drivers and tools for products by Blackmagic Design including DeckLink and Intensity Required to run any software for those products. Kernel module is being called blackmagic. Some QA Notices show during emerge, please ignore.To install Media Express as well, emerge media-video/blackmagic-media-express.
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| media-libs/blackmagic-desktop-video-sdk | dneuge | 12.4.1 12.2.2 |
Desktop Video SDK - headers, examples and documentation necessary to develop/compile custom applications for products by Blackmagic Design (also known as DeckLink SDK) Only needed if you want to build custom tools for Blackmagic hardware. Not required to run programs which have already been compiled with support for the Blackmagic DeckLink API. |
| media-video/blackmagic-media-express | dneuge | 3.8.1 3.7 |
Media Express - Blackmagic Design's tool for media capture, organization and playback (to be used with their products, such as DeckLink and Intensity) |
| net-misc/asterisk-softmodem | dneuge | 20160525 |
A V.21/V.22/V.23 modem for Asterisk. This is mainly useful if you intend to emulate a Bildschirmtext dial-up connection (BTX, old German data service). However, the module may have other uses as well as it is configurable to provide any service running over the implemented protocols. Some shortcomings: Keep in mind that VoIP is usually using lossy encoding optimized for speech. If you're using SIP make sure your VoIP clients use lossless or at least "data-friendly" codecs (such as G.711/PCM ulaw/alaw or G.726) and make sure your VoIP connection is safe from packet loss. Also (at least for V.23) connecting modems may require special AT commands to detect the protocol's carrier, such as AT+MS=3,0,300,1200 - you may want to RTFM on the AT commands and protocols supported by your specific modem. ;)
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A quick word on what "Condition" means: As these ebuilds are merely dependencies for getting the above ebuilds to run/install, they may not have been tested enough for other uses and are usually of a more sloppy quality that would need improvement to be ready for general use. These are marked with "poor", whereas "okay" indicates unverified but expected-to-be-okay behaviour (e.g. modified ebuilds from other sources).
None available at this time.
| Category/Name | When | Removed by | What / Reason |
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| dev-python/epc | 28 Feb 2021 | dneuge |
EPC, RPC stack for Emacs Lisp Used for bidirectional integration between Python and Emacs. Was required to integrate dev-python/jedi (available from main portage tree) with Emacs using Jedi.el.Removed because all officially supported Python versions were removed from Gentoo in February 2021 and thus the ebuild caused errors on tree indexing. It also appears that (when installed through MELPA) JEDI now distributes EPC by itself, so this ebuild should not be required any more. |
| dev-python/sexpdata | 28 Feb 2021 | dneuge |
S-expression parser for Python No longer needed; dev-python/sexpdata is available in official Gentoo portage tree.Was a dependency of dev-python/epc which has been removed as well.
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| dev-vcs/kallithea | 28 Feb 2021 | dneuge |
Kallithea (GPLv3 fork of RhodeCode) a web-based frontend and middleware to Mercurial and Git repositories Kallithea versions before 0.4.1 have several more or less severe vulnerabilities, check their website for details. Megacoffee overlay has stopped providing updated ebuilds for a number of reasons. Most importantly we did not see any good (automatable) migration path between 0.3 and later versions, so an update would have required manual intervention anyway. Since the ebuild has just been a wrapper around virtualenv it should not be too difficult to replace it following the manual. |
| dev-vcs/rhodecode | 28 Feb 2015 | dneuge |
RhodeCode, a web frontend for managing Mercurial and Git repositories
There were a number of issues with this ebuild:
As we advised against using our ebuild since July 2014, we decided to simply remove this ebuild. Please uninstall it if you didn't already or at least follow Kallithea's security notice to patch your installation! There were a number of dependency ebuilds we provided to get RhodeCode 1.3.6 up & running (at least when we initially wrote the ebuild). Those have been removed as well and should not have been installed unless you installed our RhodeCode ebuild:
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| kde-misc/py-cashew | 24 Apr 2016 | dneuge |
Plasmoid for KDE 4.6+ to remove the so-called Cashew (desktop configuration icon) - Changes in KDE broke this plasmoid beyond repair and it was thus abandoned in December 2013. "I HATE the cashew" popped up again and has been reported as working. |
| media-libs/libwebp | 30 January 2022 | dneuge |
support library for webp (lossy image format) Removed because it was introduced in 2014 as a dependency to media-tv/mediabrowser-server which was already removed from our overlay in 2017. libwebp has been available from official portage for years. |
| media-libs/xine-lib | 15 Dec 2019 | dneuge |
Legacy xine-lib version restored from official portage tree to be able to compile e.g. media-plugins/vdr-xineliboutput Removed due to EAPI 4. Generally no longer needed, all dependant programs should have been updated long ago. |
| media-plugins/gimp-dds | 26 Feb 2022 | dneuge |
GIMP DDS Plugin for editing Direct Draw Surface files. Removed due to EAPI 5. GIMP 2.10 has native support for DDS import and export now, so the plugin should no longer be necessary. |
| media-tv/emby-server | 23 Jun 2021 | gsnerf | Emby Server (formerly known as MediaBrowser Server) is a software that indexes a lot of different kinds of media and allows for them to be retrieved and played through the DLNA protocol on any device capable of processing them. |
| media-tv/emby-server-beta | 23 Jun 2021 | gsnerf | Beta releases of media-tv/emby-server, see above. |
| media-tv/mediabrowser-server | 3 Mar 2017 | gsnerf |
DLNA capable open source media server which can transcode on demand. Supports audio, video and more. Replaced by media-tv/emby-server. |
| media-tv/plex-media-server | 3 Mar 2017 | gsnerf | media server part of the plex media center system originally built for OS X but over time ported to Windows and linux |
| media-video/lightworks | 15 Dec 2019 | dneuge |
Lightworks is a feature-rich non-linear video editor (NLE). Removed due to EAPI 4. Ebuild only provided version 11.5 which was long outdated (current version is 14.5). |
| media-video/qt-faststart-python | 28 Feb 2021 | dneuge |
Python implementation of qt-faststart from https://github.com/danielgtaylor/qtfaststart Removed because all officially supported Python versions were removed from Gentoo in February 2021 and thus the ebuild caused errors on tree indexing. As of 2021 (most-likely much earlier) FFMPEG is also able to just "convert to a faststart video" without any content recoding. Also, FFMPEG should no longer cause the issues it did when this Python reimplementation was created and in wide use and there haven't been any new releases in years. |
| net-analyzer/nrpe | 15 Dec 2019 | dneuge |
Removed due to EAPI 4, ebuild provided version 2.15. Contact us if ebuild is still needed. |
| net-im/trillian | 15 Dec 2019 | dneuge |
Removed due to EAPI 2. |
We use git for our repository. When syncing with layman and the overlay megacoffee you are accessing https://gitlab.megacoffee.net/gentoo-overlay/megacoffee-overlay.
We are Daniel Neugebauer (dneuge) and Michalis Adamidis (gsnerf), two software (former web) developers and long-time Gentoo users who came, saw and stayed with their favorite Linux distribution since Gentoo 1.4 RC3 (sometime back in 2003). Shortly after we rented a root server (and after a much too black coffee at work), we discovered that megacoffee.net was an available domain and registered it as kind of a placeholder domain for services that we both needed to host but did not want to duplicate on our personal domains, energiequant.de and gsnerf.de.
If you want to contact any/both of us, simply send an email to gentoo-overlay@megacoffee.net.
As already said in the introduction, this is an unofficial Gentoo community site.
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