User:RarogCmex/Project:GURU/End User Guide

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End User Guide

For those who want to just use Guru ebuild repository as end user, you may follow the adopted instructions from Ebuild repository page:.

Warning
GURU project is in beta. The details may still change.
Warning
GURU maintained ebuilds does not supported by Gentoo security project. That, however, don't mean that all GURU packages is unsafe, it mean only lack of warrantly if something get wrong.

Connecting GURU repository

At this stage we will attach GURU repository so portage will know about it. Any methods from Ebuild repository page are supported.

Via eselect repository

Make sure app-eselect/eselect-repository is installed:

root #eselect repository enable guru

Via layman

Make sure app-portage/layman is installed:

root #layman -a guru
root #layman -s guru

Via plain node in repos.conf

Make sure you're installed dev-vcs/git because it's sync method.

FILE /etc/portage/repos.conf/guru.conf
[guru]
location = /var/db/repos/guru
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/guru.git

Fetching packages

root # emerge --sync guru

Please consult the Portage/Sync article if you in doubt.