Gentoo overlay

Overlays are used in Gentoo to manage ebuilds outside the portage tree. There is an official GNOME overlay that contains recent GNOME packages, for example. My overlay contains some packages that are useful to me, such as:

• GetLive
• Humble Indie Bundle 2, comprising Revenge of the Titans, Osmos, Braid, Cortex Command, Gish and Penumbra Overture
• Majesty

Location and usage

The overlay is available on Github. To setup the overlay in Gentoo:

• If using layman:
  1. layman -o http://amigadave.com/overlays.xml -f -a amigadave
• Otherwise:
  1. git clone git://github.com/amigadave/overlay.git
  2. $EDITOR /etc/make.conf
     1. Add ‘PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/path/of/overlay"’
  3. $EDITOR /etc/portage/package.keywords
     1. Unmask desired packages