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OK so yes I know overlays in the wild can be disastrous. |
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Reading the devmanual while parsing through various ebuilds |
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both portage and in the wild, does make for some interesting |
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reading:: ymmv. |
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I'm not sure my overlay (kung_fu) is complete. |
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'layman -L' lists reasonably qualified overlay sites; but you |
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have to add them to search out their content directly. |
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'eix -R <keywordname> ' will search far and wide for a given |
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overlay; like the distributed database 'cassandra. |
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Some googling suggest that zugaina contains a master list of overlays? |
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(not sure how true this is). |
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I'm not sure if 'eix -R' or 'browsing zugaina' provides the widest possible |
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list of (mostly safe) overlay sites. |
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Last, googling for the name + ebuild or overlay can find packages, |
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but if the archive (git etc) is not listed with a layman -L:: be |
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very cautious.... audit the details of the overlay. |
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Specifically, on dev-db/cassandara I find 2.1.3 and 2.12 |
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([5] "spike-community-overlay" layman/spike-community-overlay) |
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but the cassandra.apache.org site shows 2.1.8 and 2.20 as the |
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stable and testing downloads currently available. So is it safe |
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to use the "spike-community" overlay as a basis to update the cassandra |
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ebuild I have available? |
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In general, is there a list (even a private list) of know good/bad |
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actors on these overlay sites? |
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Any further tidbits on searching out and qualifying overlays (yes |
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I know only a full code audit is actually safe) that folks use |
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or would suggest would be keen. I did see some gentoo wiki pages on the |
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subject but they seem terse or dated. |
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curiously, |
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James |
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