personal gentoo overlay

Table of Contents

• Main
• Setup and synchronisation
  • Adding the overlay manually
  • Using eselect-repository
  • Add the distfiles archive to GENTOO_MIRRORS
• Maintainer
• License and copying

Main

This is my private and unofficial overlay for Gentoo/Linux. There will be different ebuilds from different sources, hopefully only temporary before submitting to the main Gentoo bugtracker resp. to the main portage tree.

Setup and synchronisation

Note	As of 2026-02-24 this overlay uses the hash sha256. Old signatures are kept 1:1 and look therfor broken. New commits are signed properly, again.

Note	You might need to remove the cloned repo manually from /var/db/repos/ and sync again. Sorry!

There are several possible ways of adding this overlay:

Adding the overlay manually

You can clone the repository and create /etc/portage/repos.conf/holgersson-overlay.conf with the following contents:

[holgersson-overlay]
priority = 50
location = /path/to/local/holgersson-overlay
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://git.holgersson.xyz/gentoo-related/holgersson-overlay
# Optionally enable GPG signature verification,
# but disable updates from wkd and keyrings:
#sync-git-verify-commit-signature = true
#sync-openpgp-key-path = /usr/share/openpgp-keys/holgersson.asc
#sync-openpgp-key-refresh = false

Using eselect-repository

Run eselect repository from app-eselect/eselect-repository:

$ eselect repository enable holgersson-overlay

Add the distfiles archive to GENTOO_MIRRORS

You may want to optionally add the distfiles mirror of this overlay to your GENTOO_MIRRORS configuration in /etc/portage:

GENTOO_MIRRORS="... https://files.holgersson.xyz/gentoo/distfiles/holgersson-overlay ..."

The distfiles are updated daily using the tool emirrordist out of the portage package:

emirrordist --delete --mirror --repo holgersson-overlay --distfiles <path to webroot>

Maintainer

If you encounter bugs, please send a mail to holgersson [ascii-symbol-64] posteo [ascii-symbol-46] de or open a bug report on the main Gentoo bugtracker (please remember to Cc me there). Bug descriptions, suggestions, patches, critics and chorus of praise are all welcome!

GPG key ID: 0x8AD9 60BB A57A F797 88CC FEC0 3CAA 2CA5 14E4 EE5E

License and copying

• The contents of this document are licensed under the CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. The ebuilds are licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 for compability with the main Gentoo/portage tree.

• Source files might have different licenses; these should be outlined in the ebuilds themselves.

• The licenses are choosen to fit into the main gentoo licenses pool; if you suggest other licenses, or think I’m mistaken in the licenses I indicate anywhere please contact me / the maintainer (see the resp. section above)!