Overlay containing various utility ebuilds for Gentoo.
- app-portage/showem source
- Provides a simple utility script (showem(1)), which enables you to monitor the progress of a parallel emerge(1). A manpage is included.
- app-portage/genup source
- Provides the genup(8) script, to simplify the process of keeping your Gentoo system up-to-date. genup(8) can automatically update the Portage tree, all installed packages, and kernel. Has interactive and non-interactive (batch) modes. A manpage is included.
As of version >= 2.2.16 of Portage, genpi-tools is best installed (on Gentoo) via the new plug-in sync system. Full instructions are provided on the Gentoo wiki.
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 genpi-tools 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/genpi-tools.conf
and put the following text in the file:
[genpi-tools]
# Various utility ebuilds for Gentoo on EFI
# former Maintainer: sakaki (sakaki@deciban.com) / now https://github.com/GenPi64/genpi-tools
location = /var/db/repos/genpi-tools
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/GenPi64/genpi-tools.git
priority = 50
auto-sync = yes
Then run:
# emaint sync --repo genpi-tools
If you are running on the stable branch by default, allow ~amd64 keyword files from this repository. Make sure that /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords exists, and is a directory. Then issue:
# echo "*/*::genpi-tools ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/genpi-tools-repo
Now you can install packages from the overlay. For example:
# emerge --ask --verbose app-portage/genup
*genpi Team