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Yesterday I found myself with some free time and still no nice bluetooth programs in my kde-4.5.2 setup. And since yesterday bluedevil-1.0 was released it sounded like good time to try it out and fix some ebuilds.

So if you go to the gentoo bugzilla and then navigate to bug #345239 you will find two “quick-and-dirty” ebuilds. But they work

So if you want bluetooth in your kde, check them out and if you have the skills and time improve the ebuilds.

It is 40 minutes past midnight. However I did not want to keep this from you!

About a week back I saw that in my feed reader all the messages from the SABnzbd project were empty. Which means that there was no activity for a very long time. So after browsing trought the forums I found that SABnzbd was abbandond. It made me sad. But the good thing is that I saw that a new group of people has started a succesor for SABnzbd, SABnzbdplus.

SABnzbdplus: Binary Newsgrabber written in Python, server-oriented using a web-interface. The active successor of the abandoned SABnzbd project

Now what does this mean for the SABnzbd users? Well it comes down to that their usenet download tool is supported again and actively developed. So you can expet new features. Bug fixes etc. So all good news. (for current changes see the changelog).

Now the response I got to my SABnzbd-0.2.5 ebuild (see original blog post) was quite a lot. People thanking me and sending in suggestions. Unfortunatly the ebuild never made it into gentoo portage. But times have changed. Currently Cherrypy-2.2.1-r1 is in portage. So that means this ebuild does not need any other ebuilds.

Having said that I must admit that is not entirely true. It still need yenc if you want that. However we come to that. Since well that package is quite small and only a few python script being installed. It should be no problem getting that into portage. However I do not yet feel quite ready to sumbit my new ebuild to portage since it needs some testing and some features (like the included Nova themes) are not yet available after installing the ebuild. So it will need a lot of fine tuning. However that is proces that will take some time and I could really use your help. So please if you got some spare time emerge the ebuild, try it and let me know how it works out.

I now have only tested it on amd64 but since it are all python scripts it should work on any arch that has the required deps. As stated you will need the yenc ebuild. Other than it should all work fine.

Now if you were using my pervious ebuild be sure to unmerge that first. Else you will get file collison!

And finally here the ebuild can be found.

So this week the new ati drivers were released. Ofcourse some of the ati using gentoo users came together on bugzilla (Bug 196820). Now I tried the way described in there however I got random atifacts. Today I installed the ati-drivers from the ati package and well they worded out of the box and everything went smooth. So I geus it is time to check what ati does what the ebuild doesn’t. Now my homework for this week is finished so I gues most of my saturday will be spend on playing with ebuilds and the ati-drivers and hope to get the thing working as it should.

Ah well. I’ll keep you posted