Arnau Bria writes: > I'd like to install mcollective and developer provides its ebuild. > so I've followed http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay for adding a > local overlay. > > *I had a problem when adding > "source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf" to my make.conf. That file > does not exists and layman has no make.conf file. Anyway, removing that > line and following the other steps makes my ebuilds available to > emerge.
Lyman is a different thing. Nowadays its defaultlocation is /var/lib/layman (I think), so to use it you need to source the make.conf in this directory. But fr your own overlay, just set the PORTDIR_OVERLAY path in /etc/make.conf. [...] > !!! Invalid or corrupt dependency specification: > > Conditional without parenthesis: 'server?' > > ('ebuild', '/', 'multi-tool/mcollective-0.4.8', 'merge') > > server? || ( =dev-ruby/stomp-1.1 >=dev-ruby/stomp-1.1.6 ) > >=dev-lang/ruby-1.8 The '||' looks wrong to me. Wonko