From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98EA41384B4 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2015 16:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41D6DE080A; Mon, 2 Nov 2015 16:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B67C5E0807 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2015 16:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from professor-x (S010634bdfa9ecf80.vc.shawcable.net [96.49.31.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dolsen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A904E340686 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2015 16:44:50 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 08:43:58 -0800 From: Brian Dolbec To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] repos config using enviroment? Message-ID: <20151102084358.614c6019.dolsen@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <1445426813.5222.22.camel@transmode.se> References: <1445426813.5222.22.camel@transmode.se> Organization: Gentoo Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c8f84c3b-323e-4781-8c58-2eb70e568827 X-Archives-Hash: 5c627f3755f019f129ee4e8e16ee361c On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:26:53 +0000 Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > Now that PORTDIR is deprecated I wonder if there is any other > way to add an local overlay to emerge without adding it > to /etc/portage/repos.conf ? > > In crossdev you just specify the local file path to a repo/overlay > where to find ebuilds, add cross symlinks etc. but this will not work > if not the local repo is listed in repos.conf > > Jocke Overlays were to go in PORTDIR_OVERLAY, that is still a valid option. It does not have as many repository control options, but the code is still present in portage. Layman's code has changed it's default to generate a repos.conf file. But there has been no talk amongst ourselves about fully deprecating the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable yet. -- Brian Dolbec