Geek on Two Wheels

Of my three Gentoo machines, two of them are running a rather scary combination of stable and unstable packages and an overlay or two via layman, sprinkled with ebuilds gathered from Gentoo bugzilla along with a few of my own.  It’s become a maintenance nightmare, especially since the non-layman ebuilds are not under version control. I’ve finally fixed that today with a portage overlay of my own.

My server is set up as the master, serving the overlay to the desktop, laptop (which is set up to emerge packages only at home, where I have a local distfiles mirror and distcc to the Core i7 machine is availble) as well as itself.  Since all of my git interactions with the server is done over ssh, the layman URL is pointed to a cgit location so that it can be pulled without special access.

Finally, the whole shebang is mirrored on yangman.ca so that anyone can access it.  The public overlay list is described at http://yangman.ca/gentoo-overlays.xml.

It’s a rather convoluted set up, but it allows the widest access to my overlays without pointing the Internet at my home server.

The first packages to make into the overlay are gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer, giving them the proper version bump love.

Hopefully, this will bring some sanity to my various /usr/local/portage.