sakaki-tools-lite Gentoo Overlay

Overlay containing some lighter-weight versions of the Gentoo utilities from sakaki-tools.

List of ebuilds

• app-portage/showem-lite source
• Provides a simple utility script (showem-lite(1)), which enables you to monitor the progress of a parallel emerge(1). A manpage is included.
• app-portage/genup-lite source
• Provides the genup-lite(8) script, to simplify the process of keeping your Gentoo system up-to-date. genup-lite(8) can automatically update the Portage tree, and all installed packages. Has interactive and non-interactive (batch) modes. A manpage is included.

Installation

As of version >= 2.2.16 of Portage, sakaki-tools-lite is best installed (on Gentoo) via the new plug-in sync system.

The following are short form instructions. If you haven't already installed git(1), do so first:

# emerge --ask --verbose dev-vcs/git 

Next, create a custom /etc/portage/repos.conf entry for the sakaki-tools-lite overlay, so Portage knows what to do. Make sure that /etc/portage/repos.conf exists, and is a directory. Then, fire up your favourite editor:

# nano -w /etc/portage/repos.conf/sakaki-tools-lite.conf

and put the following text in the file:

[sakaki-tools-lite]

# Various (lite variant) Gentoo utilities, from sakaki
# Maintainer: sakaki (sakaki@deciban.com)
 
location = /usr/local/portage/sakaki-tools-lite
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/sakaki-/sakaki-tools-lite.git
priority = 50
auto-sync = yes

Then run:

# emaint sync --repo sakaki-tools-lite

If you are running on the stable branch by default, allow ~ppc or ~arm keyword files from this repository, as appropriate. Make sure that /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords exists, and is a directory. Then, if running on an Excito B2 (ppc architecture), issue:

# echo "*/*::sakaki-tools-lite ~ppc" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/sakaki-tools-lite-repo

Or, if running on an Excito B3 (arm architecture), issue:

# echo "*/*::sakaki-tools-lite ~arm" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/sakaki-tools-lite-repo

Now you can install packages from the overlay. For example:

# emerge --ask --verbose app-portage/genup-lite

Maintainers

• sakaki