A basic thing before using an overlay is finding the correct one. Unfortunately most portage tools and emerge -s only search local overlays. For eix we implemented a special update-eix-remote tool to add information of remote overlays. It can be used like this:<\/p>\n
I like the result very much. For example this allows me to take notice of a newer asterisk ebuild in drizzt’s overlay:<\/p>\n Of course this kind of search can only work when the overlay is present in the global layman list. The global list is kept in Gentoo cvs gentoo\/xml\/htdocs\/proj\/en\/overlays\/layman-global.txt Every Gentoo developer with commit permissions is encouraged to keep this list up to date. I also welcome contributions by non-developers – please send a diff against the current layman-global.txt to overlays@gentoo.org or contact us in IRC #gentoo-overlays with the diff. To generate a diff: Also the few layman commands to use the overlay:<\/p>\n -k disables checks for officialness, -f fetches a new global list, -L lists all overlays, -a adds a new overlay, -S syncs all overlays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A basic thing before using an overlay is finding the correct one. Unfortunately most portage tools and emerge -s only search local overlays. For eix we implemented a special update-eix-remote tool to add information of remote overlays. It can be used like this: # echo app-portage\/eix >> \/etc\/portage\/package.keywords # emerge eix # update-eix # update-eix-remote … Continue reading Searching for ebuilds in overlays that are not locally available<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genstef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genstef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genstef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genstef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genstef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genstef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genstef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genstef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genstef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genstef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}# echo app-portage\/eix >> \/etc\/portage\/package.keywords
\n# emerge eix
\n# update-eix
\n# update-eix-remote update
\n<\/code><\/p>\n$ eix -e asterisk\r\n[U] net-misc\/asterisk\r\n Available versions: 1.0.11_p1 1.2.12.1 1.2.13 1.2.13-r1 1.4.0_beta3[1]\r\n Installed: 1.2.13-r1\r\n Homepage: http:\/\/www.asterisk.org\/\r\n Description: Asterisk: A Modular Open Source PBX System\r\n\r\n[1] (layman\/drizzt-overlay)<\/pre>\n
\n$ diff -u layman-global.txt.orig layman-global.txt > new-overlay.diff<\/code><\/p>\n\r\n# emerge -va layman\r\n# echo \"source \/usr\/portage\/local\/layman\/make.conf\" >> \/etc\/make.conf\r\n# layman -k -f -L #you can see all global overlays listed here\r\n# layman -k -a drizzt-bsd\r\n<\/pre>\n