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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Using cvs as your portage directory
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:01:40
Message-Id: 200403232358.00264.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Using cvs as your portage directory by Stuart Herbert
1 On Tuesday 23 March 2004 23:54, Stuart Herbert wrote:
2 > What would be great would be if Portage supported more than one
3 > PORTDIR_OVERLAY tree on the same box. Then you can have a local Portage
4 > tree for developing new ebuilds, then the CVS one to commit and test in,
5 > and finally the rsync tree to catch all the ebuilds missing from the other
6 > two trees. That sounds like it'd be a good compromise.
7
8 portage actually supports multiple overlays. I don't know exactly how, but it
9 does. Probably just adding the overlay to the variable with a space separator
10 works.
11
12 Paul
13
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15 Paul de Vrieze
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Using cvs as your portage directory Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>