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Missing gentoo ebuilds
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Current Gentoo installation instructions don't work and can break existing overlays #20

Open lembark opened 8 years ago

lembark commented 8 years ago

The instructions include:

echo "PORTDIR_OVERLAY=$PORTDIR_OVERLAY /usr/local/portage/overlays" >> /etc/make.conf

(1) The file has been moved to /etc/portage/make.conf. Even if this file exists on older systems it is no longer used (unless it's a symlink to ./portage/make.conf).

(2) If there is already an existing PORTDIR_OVERLAY this will break the working system by replacing it with a new one.

A better approach would be: . /etc/portage/make.conf; if [ -n "$PORTDIR_OVERLDAY" ] then

append whatever you like to the file, or better yet, insert it near the top

 # where any existing definitions are already defined.

else

install into $PORTDIR_OVERLAY

fi

However you like it, the path to make.conf needs to be updated for the instructions to work and some check for an existing PORTDIR_OVERLAY is necessary to avoid breaking existing installations.

vozhyk- commented 8 years ago

A better way is to make it possible to add the overlay with layman. As far as I know, it only requires an xml file. A layman description file is present. So the instructions can be updated to use layman to add the overlay.

vozhyk- commented 8 years ago

Also, there is an ebuild for dev-java/sbt (not -bin) in portage, it just needs to be updated to 0.13.9 (it's 0.13.8 currently).