Funtoo 1.0 Profile

This Profile isn't ready at the moment, it is still in development but we started to provide here more info so you can get more firm with it

The main idea

The main idea behind the funtoo 1.0 profile is to simplify the life of a Funtoo system administrator by grouping everything at a single place (no more messing around with /etc/make.conf, /etc/make.profile-symlinking and /etc/portage). All the configuration is now done inside of /etc/portage. Also the profile structure in itself has been revised to bring simplicity without sacrificing the Funtoo flexibility.

The files inside /etc/portage

If there are several ways for defining it possible, we will highlight in green the advised one. But don't be afraid we will go through all the files/dirs one by one in the following.

File-/Dir-name	[F]ile/[D]ir	Function
bin	D	autocreated, normally no need to edit
package.accept_keywords	D/F	for packages where you like to accecpt other keywords too
package.env	D/F
package.keywords	D/F	anmask for a special keyword mask
package.license	D/F	for unmasking special licenses per package
package.mask	D/F	for masking special packages or special package versions
package.properties	D/F
package.unmask	D/F	unmasking special package-version that have been masked by Developers
package.use	D/F	setting per package USE-Flags
postsync.d	D	autogenerated, normaly no need to edit
savedconfig	D	Storage for configs that need to be included while building a special package
make.defaults	F	The former /etc/make.conf file all settings you had in there will be in here now
overlays	F	That file defines the overlays for you
parent	F	here you choose what profile you will use
portdir	F	That file is very important, you need to define the path to your portdir in here else the new funtoo 1.0 profile won't work

/etc/portage/overlays

Example overlay file

oleg@orion ~ $ cat /etc/portage/overlays
/var/lib/layman/lcd-filtering
/var/lib/layman/mpd
/var/lib/layman/oss-overlay
/home/oleg/funtoo-overlay

/etc/portage/parent

Example profile

oleg@orion ~ $ cat /etc/portage/parent
#:default/linux/amd64/2008.0
:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/arch/x86-64bit 
:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/build/current 
:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/flavor/desktop
:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/mix-ins/dvd
:funtoo/1.0/linux-gnu/mix-ins/media

/etc/portage/portdir

Example portage tree

oleg@orion ~ $ cat /etc/portage/portdir
/var/cache/portage