[gentoo-portage-dev] repos config using enviroment?

[gentoo-portage-dev] repos config using enviroment?

[Joakim Tjernlund]

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

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] repos config using enviroment?

[Brian Dolbec]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:26:53 +0000
Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se> 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 <dolsen>