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Want to create your own custom profiles? Thought up a mix-in that's not currently in the Funtoo profiles? Have an overlay with profiles and want to make it easy for people to use them? Well you've come to the right place. This article will show you how to easily add you own profiles. No more ugly hacking of parent files and other nonsense. Once you follow this guide, not only will portage easily recognize your profiles, they will also show up in eselect right along with the ones from the main tree.
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== How to do it ==
=== Rules to follow ===
#You will need a version of [[Package:Eselect|eselect]] that supports Funtoo profiles (already integrated into Funtoo Linux.)
#Your overlay must have a profiles directory. It must include a repo_name file with the name of your overlay.
#Your profiles must be inside of the profiles directory
#You need a profiles.eselect.desc file inside the profiles directory. See profiles.eselect.example in your Funtoo Portage tree for instructions.
#If you're creating profiles of types arch, build, flavor, or mix-ins, your profile must be inside a directory with same name, such as <tt>profiles/my_profile/flavor/new_profile</tt>, <tt>profiles/my_profile/mix-ins/subdir/profile</tt>.
# Currently <tt>NoMix</tt> (see <tt>profiles.eselect.example</tt>) is only supported for profiles in the same tree.
# If you're not using a standard Funtoo tree, you must ensure that your main Portage tree has <tt>profile-formats = portage-2</tt> set in <tt>metadata/layout.conf</tt> in order for portage to interpret the <repo_name>:<profile> syntax.
 
=== Example of how to set up ===
For our example we will create a mix-ins profile called 'fake_pro' in a local overlay called 'local_overlay'. fake_pro will set the 'dummy' USE flag globally and also set the 'fake' USE flag on sys-apps/not-exist. We will then add the profile to eselect so it's visible when running 'eselect profile'.
 
==== Creating the profile ====
We will use ''<code>${OVERLAY_DIR}</code>'' as the path to local_overlay. These instructions assume the overlay exists.
If you haven't set a name for your overlay, do that first:
<console>
###i## echo "local_overlay" > ${OVERLAY_DIR}/profiles/repo_name
</console>
 
Next lets create a directory to store our profile. Since we're creating a 'mix-ins' profile we need to make sure our profile is inside a 'mix-ins' subdirectory. This is a requirement in order to ensure that the profile will show up in eselect. If your not planning on using eselect then there's no requirement to use 'mix-ins'
<console>
###i## install -d ${OVERLAY_DIR}/profiles/my_profiles/mix-ins/fake_pro
</console>
 
Now that we have a directory for our profile, lets go ahead and add our settings. Global USE settings go in ''<code>make.defaults</code>'', package specific USE settings go in ''<code>package.use</code>'':
<console>
###i## cd ${OVERLAY_DIR}/profiles/my_profiles/mix-ins/fake_pro
###i## echo 'USE="$USE dummy"' >> make.defaults
###i## echo 'sys-apps/not-exist fake' >> package.use
</console>
Note that no matter if your using funtoo or gentoo, profile settings all work the same. For more information please check the portage man page.
 
==== Adding to eselect ====
eselect reads from the file ''<code>profiles.eselect.desc</code>'' in your profiles/ directory. Format is "Type Name Status NoMix" space-separated. For more information look in ''<code>/usr/portage/profiles/profiles.eselect.example</code>'':
<console>
###i## echo 'mix-ins my_profiles/mix-ins/fake_pro testing' >> ${OVERLAY_DIR}/profiles/profiles.eselect.desc
</console>
Watch the result:
<console>
###i## eselect profile list
</console>
 
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