What is it?

A Gentoo overlay which provides modified and unofficial ebuilds for a XBMC appliance/set-top-box/htpc.

Get it!

There are two easy ways to get the overlay onto your Gentoo installation:

1. Git

1. emerge -av git

2. mkdir /usr/local/portage

3. cd /usr/local/portage

4. git clone git://github.com/frace/xbmc-overlay.git

5. Modify /etc/make.conf:

    PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/xbmc-overlay/"
   

2. Layman

If you don't know what layman is then please read the documentation first.

1. emerge -av layman

2. Modify /etc/layman/layman.cfg:

    overlays  : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml
                https://raw.github.com/frace/xbmc-overlay/master/repositories.xml
   

3. layman --list

4. layman --add xbmc-overlay

Available ebuilds

    [M] app-admin/istatd-0.5.7
        media-plugins/xbmc-addon-libshairplay-1.0_pre20130416
        media-tv/xbmc-9999
    [M] net-fs/afpfs-ng-0.8.1
        sys-power/upower-0.9.23

Masked [M] ebuilds are unmaintained and are not in sync with possible upstream ebuilds.

Bugs

You are welcome to report bugs at the project bugtracker at github.com.

ToDo

• Add an ebuild for a patched («quietboot») version of syslinux
• Add an ebuild for XBMC fbsplash themes in media-gfx/

Presumably a more recent list of todos can be found on the project todo list at github.com.

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• Portage man pages
• make.conf man pages
• Gentoo dev manual
• Ebuild writing
• Ebuild file format
• Gentoo color palette