nick87720z / simonvanderveldt-overlay

Personal Gentoo overlay focused on music production and engineering applications

simonvanderveldt-overlay

Overlay with applications that aren't available upstream or in other overlays, mainly music creation related.

How to use this overlay

• Add an entry to /etc/portage/repos.conf:

[simonvanderveldt]
# Use the location where you store your overlays
location = /usr/local/overlay/simonvanderveldt
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/simonvanderveldt/simonvanderveldt-overlay.git
auto-sync = yes

• Sync

emerge --sync

• You're all set. Go and install a package :)

Problems?

If you run into problems please create an issue or send a pull request if you already know how to fix it :)

Automated quality control

• GitHub's branch protection is enabled for the master branch
• Changes can only be done using pull requests
• Pull requests can only be merged if they pass the automated tests, which are run by Travis CI
• Travis CI also runs daily checks if a new version of one of the packages in this overlay is released. If so, an issue requesting a version bump will be created

Automated tests

The following tests are run for every pull request:

• repoman checks:
• full to check if the overlay and ebuilds are correct
• --xmlparse to check if the metadata.xml files are correct