[gentoo-portage-dev] portage tree modules

[Sandy McArthur <sandymac@gentoo.org>]

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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