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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: Since the forums are down I will ask here
From:       Tom Prado <tprado () charter ! net>
Date:       2002-10-18 21:17:59
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I'm unclear what lack of anoncvs mirror of the portage tree has to do with 
protecting your own custom ebuilds.   PORTDIR_OVERLAY points to the top 
level path of your local portage tree.  This "local" portage tree only 
contains _your_ custom ebuilds.  emerge rsync still writes to 
/usr/portage.


So...
have PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/portage.local   in /etc/make.conf

and put your own ebuild in there so if if you have a ebuild 
sys-apps/foo/foo-1.0.ebuild then put it there:
/usr/portage.local/sys-apps/foo/foo-1.0.ebuild

when you do a ebuild foo-1.0.ebuild digest, the digest files get put in 
the portage.local area.

The next time you do a emerge rsync.  portage.local remains intact.


Tom Prado


 

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote:

> Tony Clark wrote:
> 
> > You should set this in /etc/make.conf
> > 
> > PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage  <- where ever it is
> > 
> > tony
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thursday 17 October 2002 17.09, Keith Hudson wrote:
> >> Is there a way to protect personal ebuilds? When I do a emerge rsync it
> >> blows away my custom ebuilds.
> >>
> >> If not may I suggest the creation of /usr/portage/personal or something
> >> along that line and when you do a emerge it checks for the newest
> >> non-blocked version in both the normal ports tree location and in the
> >> personal directory.  If I could program I would do it.
> >>
> >>
> >> V/R
> >>
> >> Keith
> >
> 
> That's all fine and good, but it gets a little hard when you get more than 
> 25 custom ebuilds.  The most optimal thing would be to set up a cvs mirror 
> on SourceForge, just like the kde people did.  If you don't believe me, 
> traceroute anoncvs.kde.org.  Look, I don't really understand why the 
> maintainers are so dead set against mirroring the CVS tree.  It makes much 
> more sense IMHO and everyone wins. 
> 
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