Welcome to the megacoffee.net Gentoo overlay!

layman -l # check which repositories were installed
layman -d megacoffee # delete ours
layman -d go-overlay # also delete go-overlay (if you don't need it)

At this unofficial place, we publish some ebuilds that may (or may not) be interesting to other Gentoo users. What we serve here are

• ebuilds written by ourselves
• ebuilds that were already in official portage but needed some small change to build newer version
• ebuilds that we fetched from Gentoo Bugzilla at some point
• ebuilds with added patches of which
  • some may have been written by us
  • some may have been fetched from other sources such as bug trackers
• ebuilds that may have been removed previously from official portage - note that these may have been removed for a reason but this is for the special cases in which you simply just need them...

All these ebuilds should be considered experimental. As we collect them from other sources (in accordance to the licenses), you are of course free to copy ours as well.

How to connect your Gentoo installation

The easiest way is to use eselect repository to connect with us.

First, get app-eselect/eselect-repository if you haven't done so already:

emerge app-eselect/eselect-repository # and follow instructions for /etc/make.conf
$EDITOR /etc/eselect/repository.conf  # check the configuration before first use

We are on the official overlay repository list, so once you have set up eselect repository all you need to do is:

1. Clear the overlay list cache if you changed your settings: rm ~/.cache/eselect-repo/repositories.xml
2. Add our overlay megacoffee to your local installation by running eselect repository enable megacoffee - you should see an output similar to this:
   

   # eselect repository enable megacoffee
   --2023-08-07 19:32:10--  https://api.gentoo.org/overlays/repositories.xml
   Resolving api.gentoo.org...
   Connecting to api.gentoo.org:443... connected.
   HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
   Length: 232044 (227K) [text/xml]
   Saving to: ‘/root/.cache/eselect-repo/repositories.xml’
   
   repositories.xml                   100%[============================>] 226.61K  --.-KB/s    in 0.02s
   
   2023-08-07 19:32:11 (13.2 MB/s) - ‘/root/.cache/eselect-repo/repositories.xml’ saved [232044/232044]
   
   Adding megacoffee to /etc/portage/repos.conf/eselect-repo.conf ...
   1 repositories enabled
   

3. Check that /etc/portage/repos.conf/eselect-repo.conf lists [megacoffee] with a megacoffee.net (sub-)domain. If it doesn't, please read our advisory above as we have no control over forked repositories outside our domain. You can also try to manually edit the URL if you don't want to change the overlay list globally; please use https://gitlab.megacoffee.net/gentoo-overlay/megacoffee-overlay.git in that case.
4. From now on, emerge --sync will update from our overlay after the main repository.
   You need to sync once before our ebuilds show up on your computer. You can either perform a full sync via emerge --sync or run emaint sync --repo megacoffee to just download our overlay.

Ebuild list

At this place we keep you informed about what ebuilds are available and why we added them, and what you should know about them if there's something special (such as "recovered" files from official Gentoo portage tree).

Prime ebuilds

Dependency ebuilds

A quick word on what "Condition" means: As these ebuilds are merely dependencies for getting the above ebuilds to run/install, they may not have been tested enough for other uses and are usually of a more sloppy quality that would need improvement to be ready for general use. These are marked with "poor", whereas "okay" indicates unverified but expected-to-be-okay behaviour (e.g. modified ebuilds from other sources).

None available at this time.

Removed ebuilds

Accessing the overlay directly

We use git for our repository. When using the original overlay source for megacoffee you are accessing https://gitlab.megacoffee.net/gentoo-overlay/megacoffee-overlay. We do not host our repository on any other domains, in particular not on GitHub. If you happen to sync with a different repository please check the advisory regarding altered forks on Gentoo's default "mirror" list above.

Who we are

We are Daniel Neugebauer (dneuge) and Michalis Adamidis (gsnerf), two software (former web) developers and long-time Gentoo users who came, saw and stayed with their favorite Linux distribution since Gentoo 1.4 RC3 (sometime back in 2003). Shortly after we rented a root server (and after a much too black coffee at work), we discovered that megacoffee.net was an available domain and registered it as kind of a placeholder domain for services that we both needed to host but did not want to duplicate on our personal domains, energiequant.de and gsnerf.de.

How to contact us

If you want to contact any/both of us, simply send an email to gentoo-overlay@megacoffee.net.

Legal information

As already said in the introduction, this is an unofficial Gentoo community site.

The name "Gentoo" is a trademark of Gentoo Foundation, Inc. and is used in compliance with the Name and Logo Usage Guidelines.

Privacy Policy

Since this website is run by the same admin on the same server, the privacy policy of energiequant.de applies (only available in German).