Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Gentoo frequently unanswered questions (FUQ)

[Markus Brischke <zoke-gentoo@zoke.de>]

Quoting Cedric Veilleux (cedric@neopeak.com):
> Hi,
> 
>    There are probably may ways to achieve this, but what I prefer is to create 
> a portage tree in my home directory with my ebuilds. Something like
> portage/distfiles/somepackage.tar.gz
> portage/net-mail/qmail-hack/qmail-hack-1.0.ebuild
> ...
> 
> Then all I have to do is "tar xzf myports.tar.gz portage" and then I can 
> distribute the tarball or extract it in my own portage tree. I don't care if 
> an emerge --clean rsync deletes it since I can easily re-extract it later..

Thanks for your answer. That is a possible solution, but i think it's
not really elegant, because you keep the same data twice. Also if you
have the "master" ebuildfiles in your home and you do a change you have
always to copy the into the portage tree.

In a first view i thought about making similar symlinks. But that is not
elegant either. What i will soon test is to put the official tree into a
special directory and only this one will be synced. I will soon comment
this :)

Thanks for all

Markus