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From: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] repos config using enviroment?
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:47:20
Message-Id: 20151102084358.614c6019.dolsen@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] repos config using enviroment? by Joakim Tjernlund
1 On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:26:53 +0000
2 Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@×××××××××.se> wrote:
3
4 > Now that PORTDIR is deprecated I wonder if there is any other
5 > way to add an local overlay to emerge without adding it
6 > to /etc/portage/repos.conf ?
7 >
8 > In crossdev you just specify the local file path to a repo/overlay
9 > where to find ebuilds, add cross symlinks etc. but this will not work
10 > if not the local repo is listed in repos.conf
11 >
12 > Jocke
13
14 Overlays were to go in PORTDIR_OVERLAY, that is still a valid option.
15
16 It does not have as many repository control options, but the code is
17 still present in portage. Layman's code has changed it's default to
18 generate a repos.conf file. But there has been no talk amongst
19 ourselves about fully deprecating the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable yet.
20
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22 Brian Dolbec <dolsen>