629464 – net-im/skype-preview -- ebuild request

Bug 629464 - net-im/skype-preview -- ebuild request

Summary: net-im/skype-preview -- ebuild request

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 636278

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages

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Reported:	2017-08-31 15:37 UTC by Gleb
Modified:	2017-11-10 09:13 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Gleb 2017-08-31 15:37:51 UTC

Probably new Skype for Linux won't last long as there are already another new application using the same Electron.

The new app has the same design and version number as Win & Mac variant, and is actually awful.

Description: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_linux-skype_startms-skype_installms/skype-preview-the-most-expressive-skype-ever-is/fc717d17-03ad-4946-bb24-08b131da1840

Comment 1 Sergey Ilinykh 2017-10-02 09:31:32 UTC

I temporary added an ebuild to my overlay https://github.com/rion-overlay/rion-overlay/blob/master/net-im/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux-8.8.76.60544.ebuild

Seems to work.
# layman -a rion

I don't know though if they updated rpm with new versions by the same link.

Comment 2 Mads 2017-10-02 13:39:02 UTC

Works nicely, thanks!

Comment 3 Karol Grudziński 2017-10-02 21:30:03 UTC

Download URI without version number is a very bad thing. But I discovered that they also provide saner download source: https://repo.skype.com/rpm/unstable/ .

RPMs names can suggest that we should consider this as another version of net-im/skypeforlinux package.

Sadly I can't test it more thoroughly because I can't get past login screen but it doesn't segfaults so it is a good sign :).

Comment 4 Fabio Rossi 2017-11-10 09:13:31 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 636278 ***