Simplify gpsd ebuild and use the latest available version.

sci-geosciences/gpsd/files/gpsd.conf

-# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sci-geosciences/gpsd/files/gpsd.conf,v 1.7 2009/08/23 00:01:40 nerdboy Exp $
+# Copyright (c) 2010 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
 
-# Config file for gpsd server
+description   "Run gpsd when the system starts"
+author        "chromium-os-dev@chromium.org"
 
-# ATTENTION: most of the configuration is done in the kernel device
-# setup for USB/Serial, Garmin, or other, however, without hotplug,
-# gpsd still needs to have the device set on the commandline.
+start on stopped boot-complete
 
-# A device may be a local serial device for GPS input, or a URL of 
-# the form:
-#      [{dgpsip|ntrip}://][user:passwd@]host[:port][/stream]
-# in which case it specifies an input source for DGPS or ntrip data.
-# Set GPS_DEV to the device to be used by the gpsd server (see the
-# INSTALL file in the docs for more info).  Run gpsd -h to see a list
-# supported driver types (most are enabled by default).
+script
+    GPSD_LOG='/tmp/gpsd.log'

[rochberg, 2011/01/07 18:45:24]

If you put this in /var/log, then the log-capture scripts will pick it up.

[vb, 2011/01/07 21:39:11]

The only thing which goes into this file are errors reported when the startup
script is running (if any), this is more a means of debugging in case something
changes than a good source of day-to-day debug information, I think /tmp is a
better place for it.

[rochberg, 2011/01/12 00:44:53]

Ahhh--I understand.   Please consider using logger instead, but if that doesn't
make sense, that's fine

+    GPS_DEVICE='/dev/ttyUSB2'
+    GPSD_PARAMS='-D 7'
 
-# This example is for a Deluo GPS Serial/USB converter dongle, really
-# a pl2303 chip - CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_PL2303 in modern 2.6 kernels.
-# The normal udev config provides the correct /dev/ttyUSB0 device.
+    exec > "${GPSD_LOG}" 2>&1
 
-GPS_DEV="/dev/ttyUSB0"
-
-GPSD_OPTS="-b -n -P /var/run/gpsd.pid -F /var/run/gpsd.sock"
-
+    retry=0
+    while [ ! -e "${GPS_DEVICE}" ]
+    do
+        if [ "${retry}" = "15" ]; then

[rochberg, 2011/01/07 18:45:24]

20 seconds?

[vb, 2011/01/07 21:39:11]

Done.

+            echo "${GPS_DEVICE} not found"
+            exit 1
+        fi
+        sleep 1
+        retry=$((retry + 1))
+    done
+    echo "Found ${GPS_DEVICE} after ${retry} seconds"
+    echo '$GPS_START' > "${GPS_DEVICE}"
+    /usr/sbin/gpsd "${GPSD_PARAMS}" "${GPS_DEVICE}"
+end script