Portage Overlay

• Table of contents
• Description
• Usage
  • Staying up-to-date
  • Troubleshooting

Description¶

This is an overlay Gentoo's portage tree, containing patched ebuilds to enable special features or to incorporate patches which are not yet approved by upstream or Gentoo.

Therefor the packages found in here have to be used carefully and with possibility of failure in mind. They are not tested very thoroughly much less for any architecture other than x86. Feel free to use them but don't rant if they seriously break your system (though the ebuilds at least shouldn't do that).

Usage¶

Follow these steps to use this overlay:

• emerge subversion
• svn co http://www.pc-tiede.de/svn/oss-tools/portage-overlay /path/to/local/overlay
• Add this to your /etc/make.conf: PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/path/to/local/overlay"

If you already have PORTDIR_OVERLAY set in /etc/make.conf, take care not to override it but to add the path to PORTDIR_OVERLAY. You can check the overlay by issuing the following command:

emerge --info | grep PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Your local copy should be listed there.

Staying up-to-date¶

Just issue the following command on a regular base and you'll get all updates:

svn up /path/to/local/overlay

Troubleshooting¶

If you get a message like this

svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/oss-tools/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: Cannot replace a directory from within

during an update try the following command:

svn switch http://www.pc-tiede.de/svn/oss-tools/portage-overlay [/path/to/local/overlay]