[gentoo-portage-dev] portage tree modules

[gentoo-portage-dev] portage tree modules

[Sandy McArthur]

I'd like to see the portage tree mechanism be more modular such that 
it's easy to "subscribe" to more than one portage tree source.

For example I've been hacking around with zeroconf and currently I tell 
people to fetch packages from the Gentoo bugzilla and dump them in their 
portage overlay tree.

I'd rather be able to tell them to run:

# echo rsync://example.com/zeroconf-stuff > 
/usr/portage/zeroconf-stuff.source
# emerge sync

and then portage would notice the new source file and sync to 
/usr/portage/zeroconf-stuff/ .


It would be nice if gentoo supported sync mechanisms other than 
cvs/rsync. Being able to download a tar.bz2 via http/ftp and unpack it 
in the right place would be nice for those people who want to maintain 
their own portage tree but don't have the means to set up a rsync server 
but can put a tarball online somewhere.


Sandy McArthur


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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage tree modules

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

Sandy McArthur <sandymac@gentoo.org> writes:

> I'd like to see the portage tree mechanism be more modular such that it's easy
> to "subscribe" to more than one portage tree source.

Perhaps a better way to support this would be to allow specification of
multiple overlay directories.

> For example I've been hacking around with zeroconf and currently I tell people
> to fetch packages from the Gentoo bugzilla and dump them in their portage
> overlay tree.

> I'd rather be able to tell them to run:

> # echo rsync://example.com/zeroconf-stuff > /usr/portage/zeroconf-stuff.source
> # emerge sync

> and then portage would notice the new source file and sync to
> /usr/portage/zeroconf-stuff/ .

> It would be nice if gentoo supported sync mechanisms other than cvs/rsync. Being
> able to download a tar.bz2 via http/ftp and unpack it in the right place would
> be nice for those people who want to maintain their own portage tree but don't
> have the means to set up a rsync server but can put a tarball online somewhere.

With improved configuration file format, you could perhaps do something
like:

OVERLAY = { "/usr/overlay/whatever", "/usr/overlay/zeroconf" };

And then just rsync /usr/overlay/zeroconf, extract a tarball, or
whatever.  You could use a script/cron job to automate it.  It doesn't
seem that integrating functionality into portage to update overlays in
various ways would be particularly useful.

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage tree modules

[Marius Mauch]

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On 01/14/04  Sandy McArthur wrote:

> I'd like to see the portage tree mechanism be more modular such that 
> it's easy to "subscribe" to more than one portage tree source.
> 
> For example I've been hacking around with zeroconf and currently I
> tell people to fetch packages from the Gentoo bugzilla and dump them
> in their portage overlay tree.

Check bug 35535, it's still alpha code but should already be usable.

Marius

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage tree modules

[Sandy McArthur]

Marius Mauch wrote:
> Check bug 35535, it's still alpha code but should already be usable.

Nice!

/me mumbles to self: Why does it seem for every good idea I think I 
have, someone seems to have beat me to it by a few weeks?

Sandy


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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage tree modules

[Brian Jackson]

On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:04 pm, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> Sandy McArthur <sandymac@gentoo.org> writes:
> > I'd like to see the portage tree mechanism be more modular such that it's
> > easy to "subscribe" to more than one portage tree source.
>
> Perhaps a better way to support this would be to allow specification of
> multiple overlay directories.

It does.

--Iggy

>
> > For example I've been hacking around with zeroconf and currently I tell
> > people to fetch packages from the Gentoo bugzilla and dump them in their
> > portage overlay tree.
> >
> > I'd rather be able to tell them to run:
> >
> > # echo rsync://example.com/zeroconf-stuff >
> > /usr/portage/zeroconf-stuff.source # emerge sync
> >
> > and then portage would notice the new source file and sync to
> > /usr/portage/zeroconf-stuff/ .
> >
> > It would be nice if gentoo supported sync mechanisms other than
> > cvs/rsync. Being able to download a tar.bz2 via http/ftp and unpack it in
> > the right place would be nice for those people who want to maintain their
> > own portage tree but don't have the means to set up a rsync server but
> > can put a tarball online somewhere.
>
> With improved configuration file format, you could perhaps do something
> like:
>
> OVERLAY = { "/usr/overlay/whatever", "/usr/overlay/zeroconf" };
>
> And then just rsync /usr/overlay/zeroconf, extract a tarball, or
> whatever.  You could use a script/cron job to automate it.  It doesn't
> seem that integrating functionality into portage to update overlays in
> various ways would be particularly useful.

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