Breakmygentoo.net - Quick howto

[kRock]

edited a few things - let's call it 1.1


Preface - Installing unstable/untested software can break your system. Should you decide to do this, you may find that your system has - crashed, burned, blown up, or other number of other horrible things. For the most part however, in my experience with using unstable packages the results are great, and you get to have the latest and greatest everything. Your milage may very. Good luck.

1) Go to http://www.breakmygentoo.net

2) Click on "The Ebuilds" at the top

3) Locate the Ebuild you'd like to install

4) Download it.

5) cd /usr/local/portage (check /etc/make.conf for the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable - /usr/local/portage is default, and highly reccomended that you *DO NOT* change this variable to use /usr/portage)

6) tar -xvjf /path/to/our.ebuild.tar.bz2

7) When you extracted your ebuilds, you'll see that it created directories in /usr/local/portage. These directories may look something like - "gnome-base" or "net-www". What you'll need to do is look for the package that you've selected to install. The easy way to do this is by doing the following -

find . |grep packagename

8) emerge /path/to/package.ebuild


You may at this point find that you have dependencies that are masked - there are two different things that may resolve this.

1-
a) Edit - /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
b)Look for the packages listed as masked.
c)Add a '#' in front of the line containing the packages you need.

If the package is not listed then go to 2.

2-
a)If your package isn't in package.mask then execute this -

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge /path/to/package

This tells emerge that it's ok to temporarily accept packages that would otherwise be masked.

[kRock]

I posted this because I searched all over for some sort of help with doing this last night, and found zarro results . Let me know if I missed anything.

[pjp]

Moved from Documentation, Tips & Tricks.
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[frippz]

Shouldn't this be posted on their site as well?

Edit:

[Lovechild]

A good guide here would be...

If you don't know how to install 3rd party ebuilds and work with an overlay dir in portage - you shouldn't be messing with it yet, you are probably not ready.

[kRock]

[Caffeine]

[Lin_Matt]

Great guide kRock! Can we use this on the site?

[Vagabond]

You might want to use the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable and put your experimental ebuilds in /usr/local/portage to protect your ebuilds from getting fried when you emerge sync.

Vag

[karl11]

Yeah Krock --- We'd love your permission to link to this thread from our site atm, and then later patch it up into a real HOWTO....great job!

Karl

[kRock]

[kRock]

[kRock]

Preliminary FAQ can be located at http://k-rock.spack.org/breakfaq.html - Also I believe that karl is sticking it up on the site tonight as well.

Please send all feedback my way! Thanks y'all.

[mxc]

I see this thread is from 2003. I can't find the download ebuild link on the breakmygentoo site. All I can find is info about downloading their entire portage overlay tree which is not what I want. I just want the lateest Evolution build to see if it works with the latest free ximian connector.

I have looked in the subversion directory and it appears that there are no tar- ed ebuild anymore. How will I donwload and install only the ximian-mail component?

[spb]

[joem]