Funtoo and Sunrise
Just wanted to let everyone know that I’ve gone ahead and merged the Sunrise overlay into the Funtoo Portage tree.
Much thanks to Caleb Cushing (xenoterracide) who did all the hard merging work. It took him a few hours, and because of his work, the merge only took me a few minutes. We both thought that git made things a little too easy – very cool as well as a bit spooky at the same time.
For those who don’t know, Sunrise is one of the oldest and biggest Gentoo overlays, and is an official Gentoo project as well. It contains about 590 new packages in a variety of categories.
Caleb is going to be sending me regular updates to Sunrise so that we can keep Funtoo up-to-date. So if you want to learn more about Sunrise, please check out the Sunrise project page.
6 comments:
Sunrise is not one of the oldest Gentoo overlays. Lot of project specific overlays like the ones Java project has been maintaining predate Sunrise by several years. The Sunrise project was started in 2006 I think http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/38898/
Hi Daniel, I'm looking forward to this addition inside the Funtoo tree.
Betelgeuse, thanks for the clarification. I don't use overlays at all so I rely on others to give me info about which overlay is the oldest, biggest, etc. :)
Betelgeuse, my apologies it was probably my fault, I was thinking it was one of the earliest ones. Of course I'm not sure I was counting the herd specific overlays.
Death to overlays! They have killed Gentoo. Kill overlays and see a rebirth in Gentoo :-((
What is Sunrise? You might well ask.
I looked it up so you don't have to. It's an overlay for projects/herds that do not (yet) find a place in the portage tree.
Post a Comment