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:

1. As usual, update your portage tree
   

   emerge --sync
   

2. Make sure you have the following line in your /etc/make.conf
   

   source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf
   

3. Get a copy of the overlay from launchpad
   

   bzr branch lp:///bzr-gentoo-overlay
   

4. Make sure you have the path to the overlay set in /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf
   

   PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/path/to/bzr-gentoo-overlay"
   

5. Now you should be able to update your system, pulling in updates to any currently installed packages from the new overlay.
   

   emerge -uav world
   

6. 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