Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS access

[Craig Peterein]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 09:39:20PM +1200, Jonathan Hunt wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Oct 2002 01:50, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> >
> > Yes, anonymous CVS is not available for us (non-members of the dev team).
> > Patches need to be sent through bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org)
>
> I'm new to gentoo. But I was wanting to add some more packages that aren't
> already in portage. I thought the first thing I should do was get an anoncvs
> version of the portage tree so that my changes wouldn't be overwritten with
> rsync. I was following instructions found here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/portage-manual.html. Does this mean I can't do
> that? Is the manual outdated in its instructions because it doesn't mention
> requiring to be a dev member to get anonymous CVS access. Please clarify,
> Jonathan

Yeah, that url is out of date.  I gather the reason that anoncvs has been
disabled is that it causes a major slowdown on the server.  The real solution
there is to set up a few anoncvs mirrors for the rest of us.  I don't know of
any plans to do so.

A temporary solution for you is to set up PORDIR_OVERLAY in your make.conf.
There are a few catches here too, since the only way to unmask a masked build
is to edit /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, which gets overwritten by emerge
sync.  Search google for PORTDIR_OVERLAY for more info.

Craig