Re: [gentoo-dev] Using cvs as your portage directory

[Brandon Hale]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 18:55 -0500, Brandon Hale wrote:

Another note to new developers considering a CVS only approach:
rsync mirrors distribute a partial Portage cache, cvs does not, so you
should be building this yourself via `emerge regen`. If you dont, things
will break in weird ways. Also, I highly advise against using CVS
checkout as a "real" overlay specified in make.conf.. this will force
Portage to rebuild the cache for this tree in addition to the rsync tree
and eat up cpu time needlessly.

> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 23:10 +0000, Stuart Herbert wrote:
>
> This may or may not be of use to any of you, but here is how I do
> things.. My main tree (/usr/portage) uses typical rsync, this is what I
> sync nightly. Note that a nightly rsync update is less stressful on our
> infrastructure as we have numerous mirrors for just this purpose. I have
> an overlay in /usr/local/portage for things that I'm playing with but
> have no intentions to commit. This is my PORTDIR_OVERLAY in make.conf.
> Lastly, I have a cvs checkout of the tree in ~/work/gentoo-x86 to
> develop against. If I want to test something in the tree, I can simply
> pass PORTDIR_OVERLAY inline and override the variable in the environment
> (this might be additive, doesnt matter either way), such as
> `PORTDIR_OVERLAY="~/work/gentoo-x86" emerge foo`. With some $1 action,
> this lends itself to a simple alias.
>
> What are the pros? I have a complete and up to date tree w/o putting
> unneeded stress on our infra. I also have a place for testing ebuilds I
> am not ready to commit. And most importantly to me, I can also work on
> the tree in CVS w/o any extra hassle. Any questions, or improvements on
> the above feel free to drop me a line.
>
> > On Tuesday 23 March 2004 22:57, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > > portage actually supports multiple overlays. I don't know exactly how, but
> > > it does. Probably just adding the overlay to the variable with a space
> > > separator works.
> >
> > Yup - space as the separator works.
> >
> > I agree with Joel - it'd be worth someone adding some docs about this for new
> > devs (and us older ones ;-) to read.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Stu
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