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Thanks Oscar :-)
Due to popular demand it now also supports installation from CD as
well as the .tar.gz files. I know you're all just holding your breath
for more exciting gentoo news....
Cheers,
Alan.
On 5/16/05, Oscar Juárez <send.me@(protected)> wrote:
> you're not alone alan ;-)
>
>
> Alan Jones wrote:
>
> >Hi Rick (well I hope you're reading cause if you're not then I'm
> >guessing no one is),
> >
> >Anyway - I've updated the ebuild - it now supports the sandbox and
> >configures the system fully - all dependancies installed and required
> >services added to autostart.
> >
> >Now you pass a path to the installer .tar.gz instead of copying it
> >anywhere also.
> >XSI_INSTALL_SRC="/path/to/installer" XSI_SPM_SERVER="servername" emerge xsi
> >
> >Foundation users can add a USE="foundation" before the emerge. Also if
> >you want to install to a custom path add
> >XSI_INSTALL_LOC="/my/install/path"
> >
> >As before extract it into your portage overlay then emerge away.
> >Digest is already in the .tar.gz so you won't need to ebuild it
> >yourself.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Alan.
> >
> >On 5/13/05, Alan Jones <skyphyr@(protected)> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>oops forgot one thing - at the moment I can't get it working with the
> >>sandbox because the softimage installer access files outside directly.
> >>So you'll need to put
> >>FEATURES="-sandbox" in front of any of those installation lines or
> >>export FEATURES="-sandbox" before running them.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Alan.
> >>
> >>On 5/13/05, Alan Jones <skyphyr@(protected)> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi All,
> >>>
> >>>I've put together an ebuild for XSI so those of you using gentoo
> >>>(guess that's me and Rick) can have a more simplified install.
> >>>
> >>>To use it put it in your portage overlay directory - if you don't have
> >>>one - check here for how to set it up.
> >>>http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds
> >>>
> >>>Assuming the default overlay directory it's just a
> >>>mkdir /usr/local/portage/media-gfx
> >>>tar -xvzf xsi-ebuild.tar.gz -C /usr/local/portage/media-gfx
> >>>
> >>>Copy your xsi .tar.gz installer to /usr/portage/distfiles assuming
> >>>defaults - if not an error will be generate when you try emerge
> >>>telling you where it should be. For foundation users the file is
> >>>XSI-4 (See http://XSI-4.ora-code.com).2-Foundation-linux.tar.gz and for others it's
> >>>XSI-4 (See http://XSI-4.ora-code.com).2-linux.tar.gz
> >>>
> >>>To install foundation users type
> >>>USE="foundation" emerge xsi
> >>>
> >>>Others type
> >>>XSI_SPM_SERVER="servernameorip" emerge xsi
> >>>
> >>>You can leave the XSI_SPM_SERVER off if you want to manually set it in
> >>>the .xsi_4.2 config file yourself (or don't need it because you're
> >>>running foundation)
> >>>
> >>>If you're running stable x86 you'll need to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS or add
> >>>media-gfx/xsi ~x86
> >>>to your /etc/portage/packages.keywords (create it if it doesn't exist)
> >>>
> >>>It might run on amd64 - I've taken a guess at the required packages
> >>>for amd64, so if someone running amd64 could tell me which emul libs
> >>>are required that would be great.
> >>>
> >>>I'll submit it to portage so it'll hopefully be included in the
> >>>standard portage tree in the future.
> >>>
> >>>Cheers,
> >>>
> >>>Alan.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>
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