I tried to emerge gentoo-web-2.3a to have a local copy of all your web pages and save your bandwidth 8-) However, it failed due to several problems: 1.) GENTOO_SRCDIR is and remains unset in the ebuild script. 2.) The script calls cvs. I don't have cvs installed, and I don't have the directory '/home/cvsroot/CVSROOT' it tries to access. 3.) The ebuild script contains two failing cd commands: One to /var/tmp/portage/gentoo-web-2.3a/work/gentoo-web-2.3a, and the other to ..../work/gentoo-src/gentoo-web. 4.) It also tries to access a file "python/gendevlistxml.py" and fails.
just to let you know, I am looking at this, and I'll get back to you soon. It's a bit tricky as the target audience is the gentoo-doc team and the people who maintain the webtree.. (it's more a developer, rather than an end user ebuild, hence it's not quite as well documented as some other might be) (oh, BTW GENTOO_SRCDIR is a veriable to be set in the shell, before you emerge gentoo-web) :)
Ahh, I didn't realize from the one-line description that this package is intended mainly for the developers. I thought it is a quick and easy way to install a local copy of the gentoo web site, to have fast and offline access e.g. to the doc's (which was my only goal). It would be nice to have a package which installs the most important documents locally. However, if this is not the goal of this package, or if fixing the script involves a lot of work, I can live without it, and you may close this bug.
I'm going to close this bug as the gentoo-web ebuild is no-longer in use by the documentation team, however if requested it may be reserected as a way of creating a local copy of the docs.
closing as per previous comment, I'll re-open if requested
