-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jans H. Xie wrote: > hi, > > I maintain a gentoo mirror in our university. It syncs with a > server everyday. Recently somebody asked me for some unofficial > ebuilds which can be found on an unofficial server, this server have a > portage tree with similar structure and there is no ebuilds conficts > (such as same name ebuilds). > > How can I merge this two portage trees? (official one plus > unofficial one). So my users just need to emerge --sync && emerge > sth-out-of-official, and even do not know the existence of the > unofficial portage. > > Jans Han Xie > Hi,
merging an unofficial portage tree into the official one should not be too difficult - simply copy the files from the unofficial tree into the appropriate pathes inside the official tree. I would not merge something into the official portage tree because it is officially maintained by Gentoo, Inc. Or is it already Gentoo Foundation, I'm not sure. Rather, I would make a second mirror with all the unofficial stuff your users can download into their PORTDIR_OVERLAY. If you merge other packages silently into your Gentoo Mirror, and your users install from somewhere else or for someone else not using _your_ mirror, they won't find the packages you merged into Portage and complain to Gentoo why packages have been taken out of Portage. - -- Dirk Raeder I prefer encrypted and signed messages. My GPG key is available at hkp://blackhole.pca.dfn.de with ID 0x05EB5446 Registered Linux user #378554 http://counter.li.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB64At2QYJ1wXrVEYRAnZlAJ97vQ8S+U9OApPAsTkSl+bL+IFz0wCgrnI2 912NIgP4jiN9n8MEYEGzs6Q= =AQiW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
