Sabayon Overlay

joser · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 23

Hi guys....

.... I was interested on try Sabayon linux, because in some computers I had no time to compile a complete system. Some days ago searching about it I found this article:

http://www.jumpingbean.co.za/blogs/mark/convert_gentoo_to_sabayon

This article suggest to add the sabayon overlay with the porpouse to convert gentoo to sabayon..... and then I had some doubts....

Sabayon overlay its a Binary package overlay? So I can install binaries in my system (gentoo).
or
I had only available the packages that came with sabayon for compiling on my gentoo??

thanks....
joser

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:07 pm Post subject:

neither of both

via layman you add an overlay to the existing main (gentoo) repository

so you have ebuilds and still need to compile the sabayon apps

basically you have a gentoo system with additional apps/ebuilds and some of the ebuilds from gentoo are replaced by the ones from sabayon
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joser · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 23

Ok!, thank you!

joser · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 23

So, the only alternative would be to install sabayon to have binary packages?

or I can install the package manager of sabayon in gentoo? I suppose this will generate a big mess in the system, not?

Regards.

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:26 pm Post subject:

if entropy/equo or rigo are in the overlays it should work (just checked: equo and entropy are; not sure how to get rigo)

you might need to set up repository files to get the binaries

for more info - it probably would be better to ask in the sabayon forums
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