Hi Guys, I just wanted to announce that I have set up an overlay for scientific applications in Gentoo. This is something ribosome and I discussed quite some time ago, and I recently set up an SVN repository and a trac site for it.
http://gentooscience.org/ Our two herd testers and I have commit access to it right now. Any other science herd members are welcome to accounts (please email me off list to get it set up). It is in the early stages and so I am open to suggestions. I was considering the possibility of using a repo specific keyword in ebuilds such as ~sci so that any herd testers and/or users can add that to their ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf (as well as maintaining normal keyword practices). The intention is to add stuff to the repo for testing before it is ready to go into portage. Some stuff that we just can't maintain for whatever reason could possibly end up in their more permanently too. It provides a great way to train herd testers in a safer (than the main portage tree) repository and develop ebuilds more interactively. Once stuff is moved into the portage tree it should of course be deleted from the repository. I would welcome any feedback you guys might have. It is pretty easy to check out a copy of it and keep it up to date - I put instructions on the site. Be warned that the ebuilds in the overlay will generally be more experimental and may need work. Tickets can be opened for ebuilds in the overlay, but new ebuilds and bugs on ebuilds in portage should still be reported in the normal way through bugzilla. When ebuilds are added to the overlay the bug will have a comment added with words to that effect. Thanks, Marcus
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