net-p2p/go-ethereum is outdated, last update (1.5.5) is from December 2016. As of writing this, 1.6.5 is the most recent release. Please update the ebuild.
Thank you for the bump request. You can help the maintainer in the meantime with further information: Does a simple bump [1] work on your system? Chances are high, because a first look on the bump revealed only small changes. Do you have a link to the changelog? [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_repository#Simple_version_bump_of_an_ebuild_in_the_local_overlay
Changelog is available at https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases for each release. Simple bump seems to work, at least build and startup.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a2a33bd25f85a13938d56574b43a1d9234b7b581 commit a2a33bd25f85a13938d56574b43a1d9234b7b581 Author: Mathy Vanvoorden <mathy@vanvoorden.be> AuthorDate: 2017-11-07 21:07:22 +0000 Commit: Craig Andrews <candrews@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-12-20 19:47:13 +0000 net-p2p/go-ethereum: version bump to 1.7.2 This ebuild replaces the evm useflag with the devtools use flag which installs all the development tools (including evm) Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/621482 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.8, Repoman-2.3.4 net-p2p/go-ethereum/Manifest | 1 + net-p2p/go-ethereum/go-ethereum-1.7.2.ebuild | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net-p2p/go-ethereum/metadata.xml | 1 + 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
