Genpi-tools Gentoo Overlay, formerly sakaki-tools

Overlay containing various utility ebuilds for Gentoo on EFI.

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

List of ebuilds

• 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.
• sys-apps/coreboot-utils upstream
  • This package provides a few utilities from the coreboot project, specifically ifdtool to parse and modify flash dumps of Intel firmware and (on amd64 only) intelmetool to query the status of the Intel Management Engine.
• (eclass/)java-maven-pkg.eclass
  • Provides an eclass to support building Maven pacakges from source. Use mvn2ebuild in place of mvn within a working Maven build tree, to create a 'starter' ebuild using this eclass.

Installation

As of version >= 2.2.16 of Portage, genpi-tools 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 genpi-tools 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/genpi-tools.conf

and put the following text in the file:

[genpi-tools]

# Various utility ebuilds for Gentoo on EFI
# former  Maintainer: sakaki ([email protected]) / now https://github.com/GenPi64/genpi-tools

location = /var/db/repos/genpi-tools
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/GenPi64/genpi-tools.git
priority = 50
auto-sync = yes

Then run:

# emaint sync --repo genpi-tools

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 "*/*::genpi-tools ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/genpi-tools-repo

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

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

Maintainers

*genpi Team