Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage tree modules

[Brian Jackson]

On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:04 pm, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> Sandy McArthur <sandymac@g.o> writes:
> > I'd like to see the portage tree mechanism be more modular such that it's
> > easy to "subscribe" to more than one portage tree source.
>
> Perhaps a better way to support this would be to allow specification of
> multiple overlay directories.

It does.

--Iggy

>
> > For example I've been hacking around with zeroconf and currently I tell
> > people to fetch packages from the Gentoo bugzilla and dump them in their
> > portage overlay tree.
> >
> > I'd rather be able to tell them to run:
> >
> > # echo rsync://example.com/zeroconf-stuff >
> > /usr/portage/zeroconf-stuff.source # emerge sync
> >
> > and then portage would notice the new source file and sync to
> > /usr/portage/zeroconf-stuff/ .
> >
> > It would be nice if gentoo supported sync mechanisms other than
> > cvs/rsync. Being able to download a tar.bz2 via http/ftp and unpack it in
> > the right place would be nice for those people who want to maintain their
> > own portage tree but don't have the means to set up a rsync server but
> > can put a tarball online somewhere.
>
> With improved configuration file format, you could perhaps do something
> like:
>
> OVERLAY = { "/usr/overlay/whatever", "/usr/overlay/zeroconf" };
>
> And then just rsync /usr/overlay/zeroconf, extract a tarball, or
> whatever.  You could use a script/cron job to automate it.  It doesn't
> seem that integrating functionality into portage to update overlays in
> various ways would be particularly useful.

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