HForge's Gentoo Overlay

HForge.org has an overlay which provides differents Gentoo ebuilds. This is an overview of some of the included ebuilds:

app-office/openerp-server

Open Source ERP & CRM

dev-python/itools

General purpose Python library

dev-python/lpod-python

languages & platforms OpenDocument

dev-vcs/libgit2

Shared C library implementing Git

dev-vcs/pygit2

Python bindings for libgit2

www-apps/ikaaro

Content Management System written in Python

How to use this Overlay

• Install layman :
  

  # emerge -av layman
  

• Edit the /etc/layman/layman.cfg file, change the overlays variable to include the hforge's list, it must look like this:

  overlays  : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml
              http://overlay.hforge.org/list.xml
  

• Add the hforge's overlay:

  # layman -S
  # layman -a hforge-overlay
  

• Add the following line to the /etc/make.conf file:

  source /var/lib/layman/make.conf
  

• Now you can verify the overlay is well there:

  # layman -S
  # layman -l
  * hforge-overlay            [Rsync     ] (rsync://overlay.hforge.org/...