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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2010-10-22 10:41:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2010-10-22 10:41:50 -0700 |
| commit | 25262e2997ff92ec2ffdc17c2261c38fb04b6328 (patch) | |
| tree | 02d455ca319cf8be40aadf19e587bd624a079220 /man/portage.5 | |
| parent | 81a938bf81cb2069b8f23b309e2d4ea8242d814a (diff) | |
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Support aliases in metadata/layout.conf.
This was requested by Daniel Robbins <drobbins@funtoo.org> so that
the funtoo repository can set 'aliases = gentoo' in layout.conf,
relieving funtoo users from the need to do a manual alias configuration
in /etc/portage/repos.conf.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/portage.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/portage.5 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5 index 80e42de75..7fe21283c 100644 --- a/man/portage.5 +++ b/man/portage.5 @@ -679,14 +679,15 @@ order: .RS .TP .BR layout.conf -Specifies information about the repository layout. Currently, only a single +Specifies information about the repository layout. A "masters" attribute is supported, which is used to specify names of repositories which satisfy dependencies on eclasses and/or ebuilds. Each repository name should correspond the value of a \fBrepo_name\fR entry from one of the repositories that is configured via the \fBPORTDIR\fR or \fBPORTDIR_OVERLAY\fR variables (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)). Repositories listed toward the right of the \fBmasters\fR list take precedence over those listed -toward the left of the list. \fISite-specific\fR +toward the left of the list. An "aliases" attribute is also supported, which +behaves like an "aliases" attribute in \fBrepos.conf\fR. \fISite-specific\fR overrides to \fBlayout.conf\fR settings may be specified in \fB/etc/portage/repos.conf\fR. Settings in \fBrepos.conf\fR take precedence over settings in \fBlayout.conf\fR, except tools such as @@ -699,6 +700,8 @@ precedence over settings in \fBlayout.conf\fR, except tools such as # eclasses provided by java-overlay take precedence over identically named # eclasses that are provided by gentoo masters = gentoo java-overlay +# indicate that this repo can be used as a substitute for foo-overlay +aliases = foo-overlay .fi .RE .TP |