Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Old Wine Versions Moving to Wine Overlay

[Michał Górny]

W dniu śro, 22.11.2017 o godzinie 01∶55 -0500, użytkownik NP-Hardass
napisał:
> Would like to get this out within the next day if no-one sees any issues.
>
> Thanks!
> Title: Old Wine versions moving to wine-overlay
> Author: NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2017-11-21
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 2.0
> Display-If-Installed: app-emulation/wine:0
> Display-If-Installed: app-emulation/wine-vanilla
> Display-If-Installed: app-emulation/wine-staging
> Display-If-Installed: app-emulation/wine-d3d9
> Display-If-Installed: app-emulation/wine-any
>
> To reduce the burden on main Gentoo repository, older versions of Wine
> will be available only in the wine overlay. These ebuilds will still be
> fully supported by the Gentoo Wine Project.  This will result in
> upstream stable releases and the several most recent upstream devel
> releases being the only versions in ::gentoo; all versions meeting the
> criteria for support within Gentoo [1] will be available in ::wine.
>
> To install the overlay you can either add the repos.conf file to your
> portage configuration directory or add the repository via layman.

What about eselect-repository? ;-P

> * To add the repos.conf file:
> # wget https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/wine.git/plain/wine.conf -O \

Infra strongly discourages fetching straight from cgit. This is not
guaranteed to be stable.

>     /etc/portage/repos.conf/wine.conf
>
> Edit the /etc/portage/repos.conf/wine.conf file so that "location"
> points to your desired folder to install the overlay.
> # emaint sync --repo wine
>
> * To install the overlay via layman:
> # layman -a wine

It's kinda surprising to see this after the repos.conf solution since it
was mentioned first.

>
> [1]
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Wine/Policies_and_Procedures#Supported_versions

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Best regards,
Michał Górny