I have messed around with things to get the latest free version of ximain-connector working. This is what I did: 1) downloaded the latest ximian-connector from the novell site and copied it to /usr/portage/distfiles/ximian-connector-1.4.7.2-0.ximian.6.1.i386.rpm 2)made a copy of ximian-connector-1.4.6.0.6.1.ebuild and called it ximian-connector-1.4.7.2.0.6.1.ebuild 3) ran ebuild ximian-connector-1.4.7.2.0.6.1.ebuild digest 4) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ximian-connector didn't work as it complained it could not find the 1.4.7 version in the masked or unmasked list. I didn't know what this meant so I just ran ebuild ximian-connector-1.4.7.2.0.6.1.ebuild emerge Everything seemed to install ok. When I start evolution I get the error message below. Any ideas? I assume some component hasn't been installed or started. =========================== ERROR ========================== cannot activate component OAFIID GNOME_EVOLUTION_EXCHANGESTORAGE_SHELLCOMPONENT The error from the activation system is: Child process did not give an error message,unknown failure occurred. ====== ERROR ===================== Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.See above 2. 3. Actual Results: It installs ok but I get the following error on starting evolution. cannot activate component OAFIID GNOME_EVOLUTION_EXCHANGESTORAGE_SHELLCOMPONENT The error from the activation system is: Child process did not give an error message,unknown failure occurred. Expected Results: Evolution should start with the exchange component working properly. Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/lib/jboss /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb doc dvd encode esd ethereal evo fam fbcon fdftk flash foomaticdb freetds gb gd gdbm gif ginac gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb jabber java jikes jpeg junit lcms libg++ libgda libwww mad mbox mcal memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpi msn mssql mysql ncurses nls oci8 odbc oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pcre pda pdflib perl plotutils png pnp postgres ppds prelude python quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang slp spell sse ssl svg svga szip tcpd tiff truetype trusted unicode usb vhosts wmf wxwindows x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid yahoo zeo zlib"
you might want to try the ebuild from bug #50801
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50801 ***
The problem with step 4) is not with ximian connector version 1.4.7, it is a dependency on the evolution mail program. I got past the problem described in step 4) by hardcoding "=mail-client/evolution-1.4.6*" as the evolution dependency. There is no evolution 1.4.7 yet, and the default setting for that package gets the version number for evolution from the version number of the ximian-connector. The resulting ebuild installed ximian-connector version 1.4.7 just fine. I have other problems to work through, though, so I haven't fully tested this.
