[gentoo-user] Selective sync of layman overlays?

[gentoo-user] Selective sync of layman overlays?

[Paul Hartman]

Hi,

Often times there's 1 or 2 packages I want from an overlay, but don't
want the entire overlay. Is there a way to do a selective sync of a
layman overlay? By that I mean tell layman to only sync certain
directories and their contents.

Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Selective sync of layman overlays?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:31:59 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:

> Often times there's 1 or 2 packages I want from an overlay, but don't
> want the entire overlay. Is there a way to do a selective sync of a
> layman overlay? By that I mean tell layman to only sync certain
> directories and their contents.

The way I do this is I add the overlays in layman but do not add them
to make.conf. Then I symlink individual directories from the layman
overlay directory to my local overlay, which is in make.conf. That way
I keep up to date with the one or two packages I need without pulling
in the whole overlay.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Yes, I've heard of "decaf." What's your point?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Selective sync of layman overlays?

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Neil Bothwick<neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:31:59 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> Often times there's 1 or 2 packages I want from an overlay, but don't
>> want the entire overlay. Is there a way to do a selective sync of a
>> layman overlay? By that I mean tell layman to only sync certain
>> directories and their contents.
>
> The way I do this is I add the overlays in layman but do not add them
> to make.conf. Then I symlink individual directories from the layman
> overlay directory to my local overlay, which is in make.conf. That way
> I keep up to date with the one or two packages I need without pulling
> in the whole overlay.

That's a great idea, I'll give it a shot. Thanks!