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From: Justin <justin@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get my overlay into layman ?
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:29:29
Message-Id: 477CC5C5.7000105@j-schmitz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get my overlay into layman ? by Neil Bothwick
1 If you just want a simple solution for your own, do a file with the
2 overlay stuff in it:
3
4 e.g.
5 <layman>
6 <overlay type="rsync"
7 src="rsync://example.net/private-portage-overlay"
8 contact="admin@×××××××.net" name="private-overlay">
9 <link>
10 http://example.net/Private Portage Overlay
11 </link>
12 <description>some usefull patches and progs</description>
13 </overlay>
14 </layman>
15
16 and provide it at you webservice :
17 http://www.example.net/private-overlay.xml
18
19 than edit /etc/layman/layman.cfg locally:
20
21 overlays : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt
22 http://www.example.net/private-overlay.xml
23
24
25 The last thing you need is
26
27 $ layman -L && layman -a private-overlay
28
29 . Viola !!
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34 Neil Bothwick schrieb:
35 > On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 23:17:03 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
36 >
37 >
38 >> could anyone please give me some hint how to get my overlay
39 >> into layman's overlay list ?
40 >>
41 >
42 > As it says in the layman man page:
43 >
44 > "To get a new overlay added to the central list provided for layman, send
45 > a mail to <overlays@g.o>."
46 >
47 >
48 >
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