Installing the latest version of Bazaar and tools on Gentoo
Currently, the bzr-svn and bzr-gtk plugins are not available in Gentoo’s package directory. Fortunately, there is exists a bzr Gentoo overlay. If you’ve never used an overlay before, it’s a way to override or add packages to Gentoo’s standard package directory. In this overlay there are a couple common plugins, as well as a patched version of Subversion that is needed for the bzr-svn plugin.
Current packages in the overlay:
- bzr
- bzrtools
- bzr-config
- bzr-dbus
- bzr-gtk
- bzr-rebase
- bzr-svn
- bzr-vimdiff
- paramiko
- subversion (patched version needed for bzr-svn)
Steps for using the overlay:
- As usual, update your portage tree
emerge --sync
- Make sure you have the following line in your
/etc/make.conf
source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf
- Get a copy of the overlay from launchpad
bzr branch lp:///bzr-gentoo-overlay
- Make sure you have the path to the overlay set in
/usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/path/to/bzr-gentoo-overlay"
- Now you should be able to update your system, pulling in updates to any currently installed packages from the new overlay.
emerge -uav world
- emerge any of the new packages you want that are now available from the overlay. Note: If you install
bzr-svn, make sure to re-install Subversion so that the patched version is used from the overlay.
emerge -av bzr-gtk bzr-svn subversion
as of jan 15 2008, bazaar is in portage
Comment by austin — January 15, 2008 @ 12:53 am
Yes, bzr is in portage (looks like bzrtools is in portage as well now), however bzr-svn and bzr-gtk are not. Although, now that portage is up to date with the latest version of bzr, you could just go to the bzr-svn and bzr-gtk pages, download them, and stick them in your ~/.plugins directory.
Comment by Gary — January 21, 2008 @ 1:23 pm