Overlay containing various utility ebuilds for Gentoo on EFI.

31 Oct 2020: sadly, due to legal obligations arising from a recent change in my 'real world' job, I must announce I am standing down as maintainer of this project with immediate effect. For the meantime, I will leave the repo up (for historical interest, and since the ebuilds etc. may be of use to others); however, I plan no further updates, nor will I be accepting / actioning further pull requests or bug reports from this point. Email requests for support will also have to be politely declined, so, please treat this as an effective EOL notice.

For further details, please see my post here.

If you have used my EFI Guide (and this repo) to install your PC-based Gentoo system, it should still continue to work for some time, but you should now take steps to migrate to a baseline Gentoo Handbook install (since the underlying tools, such as buildkernel, will also now no longer be supported and may eventually fail as more modern kernels etc. are released).

With sincere apologies, sakaki ><

Required for the tutorial "Sakaki's EFI Install Guide" on the Gentoo wiki.

• app-portage/showem source
  • Provides a simple utility script (showem(1)), which enables you to monitor the progress of a parallel emerge(1). A manpage is included.
• sys-kernel/buildkernel source
  • Provides a script (buildkernel(8)) to build a (stub EFI) kernel (with integral initramfs) suitable for booting from a USB key on UEFI BIOS PCs. Automatically sets the necessary kernel configuration parameters, including the command line, and signs the resulting kernel if possible (for secure boot). Has a interactive and non-interactive (batch) mode. Manpages for the script and its configuration file (/etc/buildkernel.conf) are included.
• app-portage/genup source
  • Provides the genup(8) script, to simplify the process of keeping your Gentoo system up-to-date. genup(8) can automatically update the Portage tree, all installed packages, and kernel. Has interactive and non-interactive (batch) modes. A manpage is included.
• app-crypt/staticgpg
  • A simple ebuild, derived from app-crypt/gnupg version 1.4.16, which creates a statically linked, no-pinentry version of gpg(1) suitable for use in an initramfs context. It can safely be installed beside a standard 2.x version of app-crypt/gnupg (which isn't SLOTted). Deploys its executable to /usr/bin/staticgpg. A placeholder manpage is included.

As of version >= 2.2.16 of Portage, sakaki-tools-oliob is best installed (on Gentoo) via the new plug-in sync system. Full instructions are provided on the Gentoo wiki.

The following are short form instructions. If you haven't already installed git(1), do so first:

# emerge --ask --verbose dev-vcs/git 

Next, create a custom /etc/portage/repos.conf entry for the sakaki-tools-oliob overlay, so Portage knows what to do. Make sure that /etc/portage/repos.conf exists, and is a directory. Then, fire up your favourite editor:

# nano -w /etc/portage/repos.conf/sakaki-tools-oliob.conf

and put the following text in the file:

[sakaki-tools-oliob]
 
# Fork and reduced from Sakaki-tools: Various utility ebuilds for Gentoo on EFI
# Maintainer: oliob ([email protected])
 
location = /usr/local/portage/sakaki-tools-oliob
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/oliob/sakaki-tools-oliob.git
priority = 50
auto-sync = yes

Then run:

# emaint sync --repo sakaki-tools-oliob

If you are running on the stable branch by default, allow ~amd64 keyword files from this repository. Make sure that /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords exists, and is a directory. Then issue:

# echo "*/*::sakaki-tools-oliob ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/sakaki-tools-oliob-repo

Now you can install packages from the overlay. For example:

# emerge --ask --verbose app-portage/genup

• oliob