[gentoo-user] Getting in to the Funtoo Tree

[gentoo-user] Getting in to the Funtoo Tree

[Hunter Jozwiak]

Hi abl. I want to get the Debian-Sources kernel, as provided by the
Funtoo tree. How do I add this tree to my Portage? They don't advise
using the Overlay, and Google searching how to add trees just pulls up
how to add overlays. Perhaps there's a section of the handbook I am
reading past that will provide the answer?

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting in to the Funtoo Tree

[Tom Wijsman]

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On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:40:35 -0400
Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi abl. I want to get the Debian-Sources kernel, as provided by the
> Funtoo tree. How do I add this tree to my Portage? They don't advise
> using the Overlay, and Google searching how to add trees just pulls up
> how to add overlays. Perhaps there's a section of the handbook I am
> reading past that will provide the answer?

Hmm, a tree is on its own an overlay; if Funtoo doesn't want you to use
it as an overlay, consider to contact them to ask how they expect you
to use it. They perhaps have a good reason as to why not; but given
it's just a package, you should be able to pull it from that overlay.

Maybe they mean the general advice to watch out that if you do add the
overlay, that you only use that package from it and not all; you might
want to mask the rest using /etc/portage/package.mask (something like
*/*::funtoo) and then unmask that kernel in /etc/portage/package.unmask

Merging more than what you need from overlays is a recipe for disaster.

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