/ineluctable-overlay

Ineluctable Overlay offers a repository of Gentoo ebuilds for projects that I am interested in, or are not yet available through Portage tree.

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Ineluctable Overlay

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Ineluctable Overlay offers a repository of Gentoo ebuilds maintained by me for projects that are not yet available through the Portage tree.

Managing This Overlay

This section will show you how to install the Ineluctable Overlay into your Gentoo system, hence the following instructions assume a certain level of expertise using Portage and layman.

Disclaimer

Keep in mind that this overlay provides packages that differ from the ones in the Portage tree.

If you do have troubles with an ebuild provided by this overlay, please take it up with the ebuild provider (the owner of this GitHub account) and not with the official Gentoo's developers. In short, in case of issues, please DO NOT report bugs at bugs.gentoo.org for these ebuilds.

Installing the overlay

In order to manage the overlay, the package app-portage/layman must be installed into your environment:

emerge -av app-portage/layman

If the installation of layman was successfully completed, then you are ready to add this overlay by fetching its remote list as showed below:

wget -q -O /etc/layman/overlays/ineluctable-overlay.xml https://raw.github.com/Dr-Terrible/ineluctable-overlay/master/overlay.xml

At this point you can execute:

layman -Lk
layman -a ineluctable-overlay

Updating the overlay

Keep the overlay up to date with:

layman -s ineluctable-overlay

Removing the overlay

The process of removing this overlay from your Gentoo environment is quite straightforward:

layman -d ineluctable-overlay
rm -r /etc/layman/overlays/ineluctable-overlay.xml

Supported Architectures

This repository offers packages that are known to work on the following architectures:

  1. x86 (32bit)
  2. amd64 (64bit)
  3. arm
  4. x86-fbsd (experimental)

Contributing

This overlay is still under development. Feedbacks and pull requests are very welcome and I encourage you to use the issues list on GitHub to provide your contributions.

I rarely reject pull requests.