Bug 6654 – For those of us who already know about PORTDIR_OVERLAY...

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Paul Belt 2002-08-17 16:13:43 UTC]

175,187c175,191
<       einfo "WARNING: The default behavior for 'emerge rsync' is to have
--clean enabled."
<       einfo "Please back up any modified files in your Portage tree before
running emerge"
<       einfo "rsync."
<       echo
<       einfo "You may want to move any custom ebuilds to a new directory, and
then set"
<       einfo "PORTDIR_OVERLAY (in /etc/make.conf) to point to this directory. 
For example,"
<       einfo "make a /usr/portage.local/sys-apps/foo directory and put your
ebuild in there."
<       einfo "Then set PORTDIR_OVERLAY=\"/usr/portage.local\"  Portage should
see your"
<       einfo "personal ebuilds.  NOTE: PORTDIR_OVERLAY support is *beta* code;
it may not"
<       einfo "work correctly yet."
<       echo
<       echo
<       }
---
>       t=`egrep "^PORTDIR_OVERLAY=" /etc/make.conf | sed -e "s/.*='//" -e "s/'$//"`
>       if [ -n ${t} ]; then
> 
>               einfo "WARNING: The default behavior for 'emerge rsync' is to
have --clean enabled."
>               einfo "Please back up any modified files in your Portage tree
before running emerge"
>               einfo "rsync."
>               echo
>               einfo "You may want to move any custom ebuilds to a new
directory, and then set"
>               einfo "PORTDIR_OVERLAY (in /etc/make.conf) to point to this
directory.  For example,"
>               einfo "make a /usr/portage.local/sys-apps/foo directory and put
your ebuild in there."
>               einfo "Then set PORTDIR_OVERLAY=\"/usr/portage.local\"  Portage
should see your"
>               einfo "personal ebuilds.  NOTE: PORTDIR_OVERLAY support is
*beta* code; it may not"
>               einfo "work correctly yet."
>               echo
>               echo
>       fi
> }

[Comment 1 Paul Belt 2002-08-17 16:14:17 UTC]

Oh yea... thats a patch to portage-2.0.28.ebuild

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2003-01-08 13:06:33 UTC]

to be honest i dont see the benefits of this being worth the time to do this ;)

i guess if nick disagrees he can re-open it