What is it?
A Gentoo overlay which provides modified and unofficial ebuilds for a XBMC appliance/set-top-box/htpc.
Get it!
There are two easy ways to get the overlay onto your Gentoo installation:
1. Git
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emerge -av git -
mkdir /usr/local/portage -
cd /usr/local/portage -
git clone git://github.com/frace/xbmc-overlay.git -
Modify
/etc/make.conf:PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/xbmc-overlay/"
2. Layman
If you don't know what layman is then please read the documentation first.
-
emerge -av layman -
Modify
/etc/layman/layman.cfg:overlays : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml https://raw.github.com/frace/xbmc-overlay/master/repositories.xml -
layman --list -
layman --add xbmc-overlay
Available ebuilds
[M] app-admin/istatd-0.5.7
media-plugins/xbmc-addon-libshairplay-1.0_pre20130416
media-tv/xbmc-9999
[M] net-fs/afpfs-ng-0.8.1
sys-power/upower-0.9.23
Masked [M] ebuilds are unmaintained and are not in sync with possible upstream ebuilds.
Bugs
You are welcome to report bugs at the project bugtracker at github.com.
ToDo
- Add an ebuild for a patched («quietboot») version of syslinux
- Add an ebuild for XBMC fbsplash themes in media-gfx/
Presumably a more recent list of todos can be found on the project todo list at github.com.