On Tuesday 04 November 2008 15:42:21 Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: > Good Day all; > > Sorry to sound like a luddite; > > Where would I create my own user overlay? (so I may go about fiddling with > the settings?)
It's in the handbook somewhere :-) But I can't be bothered finding it, so I'll type it. All it really is, is a directory somewhere and you tell portage where it is. In that directory you have a sub-directory structure that looks the same as the portage tree, but with just the categories you have ebuilds for. I have my portage tree at /var/portage (yes, I'm a stickler for detail and the tree is a database so it should not go into /usr/ per LFS and in case I mount /usr/ read-only....). The normal place for overlays is thus /var/portage/local: $ ls -l /var/portage/local/ total 3 drwxrwsr-x 15 root portage 1024 Oct 28 10:31 alan drwxr-sr-x 8 alan portage 1024 Sep 25 10:28 e17 drwxrwsr-x 5 root portage 1024 Oct 12 18:27 layman Ignore layman, that's a gentoo tool to make it easy to use gentoo dev's own overlays that they publish. My private overlays are alan and e17. Inside alan I have: $ ls -l /var/portage/local/alan/ total 23 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 1161 Jun 6 17:51 TODO drwxr-sr-x 3 root portage 1024 Oct 28 10:31 app-doc drwxrwsr-x 3 root portage 1024 Jun 4 10:49 app-misc drwxrwsr-x 2 root portage 1024 Mar 16 2008 app-text drwxrwsr-x 3 root portage 1024 Jan 3 2008 dev-util drwxrwsr-x 2 root portage 1024 Aug 29 14:58 eclass -rw-rw-r-- 1 alan portage 0 Feb 27 2008 manifest1_obsolete drwxr-sr-x 4 root portage 1024 Sep 15 16:36 net-libs drwxrwsr-x 3 root portage 1024 May 3 2008 net-mail drwxr-sr-x 5 root portage 1024 Sep 15 21:16 net-misc drwxrwsr-x 2 root portage 1024 Jun 26 13:13 profiles drwxrwsr-x 2 alan portage 1024 Sep 9 14:24 x11-libs drwxrwsr-x 3 alan portage 1024 Apr 27 2008 x11-misc drwxrwsr-x 8 root portage 1024 Sep 15 16:37 x11-plugins drwxrwsr-x 146 root portage 9216 Nov 2 18:38 x11-themes It looks just like a piece of a portage tree. Tell portage where the overlay is with an edit to make.conf: $ grep -i overlay /etc/make.conf PORTDIR_OVERLAY="$PORTDIR_OVERLAY /var/portage/local/e17 /var/portage/local/alan" and you are all set. Put ebuilds in the obvious place in the directory. The only extra step before you can use them is to build a manifest for each package with an ebuild: ebuild /path/to/your/ebuild/<package>-<version>.ebuild manifest Do this once per package (it manifests all files in the directory, not just that one ebuild) and emerge. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
