root
- app-eselect
- dev-games
- dev-python
- eclass
- games-action
- games-arcade
- games-board
- games-emulation
- games-engines
- games-fps
- games-misc
- games-puzzle
- games-roguelike
- games-rpg
- games-server
- games-simulation
- games-strategy
- games-util
- licenses
- metadata
- profiles
- README.md
- repository.xml
Purpose and scope
Games ebuilds, nothing else. No libraries.
Contributing
- no games.eclass usage
- proper Copyright header (not just Gentoo Foundation, unless you want to give them copyright)
- license should be GPL-2
- all commits MUST be gpg-signed
- always provide a metadata.xml with contact information
Adding the overlay
With paludis: see Paludis repository configuration
With layman: layman -f -o https://raw.github.com/hasufell/games-overlay/master/repository.xml -a games-overlay or layman -a games-overlay
Signature verification
All commits on the first parent (at least) are signed by me. You can verify the repository via:
[ -z "$(git show -q --pretty="format:%G?" $(git rev-list --first-parent master) | grep -v G)" ] && echo "verification success" || echo "verification failure"If the verification failed, you can examine which commits did via
git show -q --pretty="format:%h %an %G?" $(git rev-list --first-parent master) | grep '.* [NBU]$'Compatibility with gentoo tree
As this overlay does not use games.eclass it does voluntarily conflict with the gentoo tree. There are a few cases that can cause trouble, e.g. when a data-package of game foo is installed from gentoo tree, but the engine of foo is installed from this overlay.
Normally this does not happen, because overlays have naturally a higher priority than the tree.
To improve compatibility, you can add the following to bashrc in paludis or make.conf in portage:
GAMES_PREFIX=/usr
GAMES_PREFIX_OPT=/opt
GAMES_DATADIR=/usr/share
GAMES_DATADIR_BASE=/usr/share
GAMES_SYSCONFDIR=/etc
GAMES_STATEDIR=/var/lib
GAMES_LOGDIR=/var/log
GAMES_BINDIR=${GAMES_PREFIX}/bin
GAMES_GROUP=usersIf you hit trouble with some packages you can simply force reinstallation of all installed gentoo-packages that are also provided by this repository. For paludis do:
cave resolve -z -1 -x $(eix --only-names --installed-from-overlay gentoo --in-overlay games-overlay)For portage do:
emerge -av1 $(eix --only-names --installed-from-overlay gentoo --in-overlay games-overlay)