Wolfram Schlich's Overlays

Available Overlays

• wschlich
• wschlich-testing

This overlays contain several ebuilds/packages, for example:

• app-admin/syslog-ng-2.0.x (with specially crafted /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf for new-style logfiles)
  • See Gentoo bug #79116

Getting started

Do this as root:

# Install LayMan (overlay management tool)
emerge -avt layman

# Create the storage location for overlays and layman stuff
# (default is /usr/portage/local, which I don't like at all)
mkdir -p /local/portage/layman

# Create LayMan config
cat >/etc/layman/layman.cfg <<EOF
[MAIN]
config_dir: /etc/layman
storage: /local/portage/layman
cache: %(storage)s/cache
local_list: %(storage)s/overlays.xml
make_conf: %(storage)s/make.conf
overlays: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt
EOF

# Fetch the list of available overlays (option 'overlays:' in layman.cfg)
layman -f

# Add the overlay named 'wschlich' to the local list of used overlays
layman -a wschlich

# Make Portage source LayMan's make.conf (which extends the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable)
echo 'source /local/portage/layman/make.conf' >>/etc/make.conf

Keeping it up2date

You might do this as a regular user (that has write permission to the layman storage directory, of course):

# Synchronize overlay named 'wschlich'
layman -s wschlich

Contact

You can contact me via...

• E-Mail: wschlich@gentoo.org
• Jabber: wschlich@jabber.laber.fasel.org
• ICQ: 35713642
• IRC: wschlich on freenode (e.g. in #gentoo-dev)
• Phone: +49-178-SCHLICH