Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: alexmcwhirter@×××××××.us
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Building a portage repo?
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:17:57
Message-Id: 96636423c037a12c80276402f234730c@triadic.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Building a portage repo? by "Michał Górny"
1 On 2016-09-14 03:40, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Portage is the package manager. The repository is named gentoo. Please
3 > use correct names because till the last paragraph, I thought you were
4 > actually referring to the package manager (and wtf-ed why would you
5 > distribute its sources via rsync).
6
7 Sorry, it's been a long night.
8
9 > Generally, it's easier to fetch
10 > https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo that has all the extra content
11 > included. However, if you want it 100% rsync compliant, you will still
12 > have to patch layout.conf and remanifest.
13 >
14 > Also note that the manifest format will be subject to change in the
15 > future, to support fully GPG-signed repository.
16
17 I was unaware of that repository, thanks for pointing it out. It makes
18 much more sense to start there than trying to rebuild everything, at
19 least while my changes stay small anyways.