BROverlay

Overlay containing ebuilds made by a small Gentoo community, learning how to do them. The focus is to have general-purpose ebuilds, available to everyone.

Installing

This overlay can be installed both manually or using overlay managers, such as eselect-repository. Don't forget to emaint sync -a or emerge --sync after doing any installation procedure below.

Using eselect-repository

eselect repository enable broverlay

Using layman

layman -L
layman -a broverlay

Manual Installation

Create a file /etc/portage/repos.conf/broverlay.conf with the following content:

[broverlay]
sync-uri = https://github.com/BROverlay/overlay.git
sync-type = git
sync-depth = 1
location = /var/db/repos/broverlay

By the way, don't forget to run emaint sync -r broverlay

Contributing

Please follow the guidelines below when submitting a pull request:

• Use pkgdev to create and verify commits;
• Commits must be signed (preferably following GLEP 63);

Also, use the following name convention for commits in the overlay:

• To add a package: category/package: +;
• To remove a package: category/package: -;
• To bump/update a package: category/package: New version;
• To change something else: category/package: What changed;

Thanks to

• You, for using the overlay
• GentooBR Overlay, this README was based on their work.