Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] custom profiles?

[Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>]

On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 12:18 -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 03/06/2015 02:15 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > I am trying to define a custom profile in one of our overlay(managed via layman)
> > This profile should inherit one of /usr/portage/profiles/ and
> > then I want to add custom USE flags, mask, keywords packages etc, then eselect this new profile.
> > 
> > I cannot work out how to do this, any pointers?
> > portage: 2.2.18
> > 
> >  Jocke
> > 
> 
> Set "profile-formats = portage-2" in metadata/layout.conf of your overlay. The is documented in the 
> "portage" man page. It allows you to specify a profile from another repository in the "parent" file of you 
> profile. For example, gentoo:default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop in your "parent" file will cause your 
> overlay's profile to inherit from that gentoo profile. If you list your profiles in profiles/profiles.desc 
> in you overlay, then eselect profile will see them.

Thanks Zac, I did the above and got my own profile :)

I can get package.accept_keywords work the same as my keyword installed at
/etc/portage/package.keywords.

package.use/package.use.force is a bit different though:
cat /etc/portage/package.use/qemu
app-emulation/qemu vde -alsa -pulseaudio -bluetooth -opengl qemu_user_targets_x86_64 xattr virtfs static-user

#Needed by static-user
sys-libs/zlib static-libs
dev-libs/glib static-libs
sys-apps/attr static-libs

Moving this to package.use/package.use.force does not respect -alsa, -pulseaudio, -opengl all
flags which has a - on them, emerge wants to turn them on again.

Am I missing something?
Using portage 2.2.18

 Jocke