Portage Overlay

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h2. Description

This is an overlay "Gentoo's":http://www.gentoo.org 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*).

bq. *The overlay has moved to its own subversion repository! A new checkout is necessary to accomodate for the change.*

h2. Usage

Follow these steps to use this overlay:

 * @emerge subversion@

 * @svn co http://www.pc-tiede.de/svn/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:

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emerge --info | grep PORTDIR_OVERLAY

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Your local copy should be listed there.

h3. Staying up-to-date

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

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svn up /path/to/local/overlay

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h3. Troubleshooting

If you get a message like this

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svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/portage-overlay/!svn/vcc/default'

svn: Cannot replace a directory from within

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during an update try the following command:

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

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