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