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diff --git a/metadata/news/2017-11-21-old-wine-versions-moving-to-overlay/2017-11-21-old-wine-versions-moving-to-overlay.en.txt b/metadata/news/2017-11-21-old-wine-versions-moving-to-overlay/2017-11-21-old-wine-versions-moving-to-overlay.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ff28b96e6059 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2017-11-21-old-wine-versions-moving-to-overlay/2017-11-21-old-wine-versions-moving-to-overlay.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Title: Old Wine versions moving to wine-overlay +Author: NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2017-11-21 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: app-emulation/wine:0 +Display-If-Installed: app-emulation/wine-vanilla +Display-If-Installed: app-emulation/wine-staging +Display-If-Installed: app-emulation/wine-d3d9 +Display-If-Installed: app-emulation/wine-any + +To reduce the burden on main Gentoo repository, older versions of Wine +will be available only in the wine overlay. These ebuilds will still be +fully supported by the Gentoo Wine Project. This will result in +upstream stable releases and the several most recent upstream devel +releases being the only versions in ::gentoo; all versions meeting the +criteria for support within Gentoo [1] will be available in ::wine. + +To install the overlay you can either add the repos.conf file to your +portage configuration directory, add the repository via layman, or add the +repository via eselect-repository. + +* To add the repos.conf file: +# wget https://dev.gentoo.org/~np-hardass/proj/wine/wine.conf -O \ + /etc/portage/repos.conf/wine.conf + +Edit the /etc/portage/repos.conf/wine.conf file so that "location" +points to your desired folder to install the overlay. +# emaint sync --repo wine + +* To install the overlay via layman: +# layman -a wine + +* To install the overlay via eselect-repository: +# eselect repository enable wine + +[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Wine/Policies_and_Procedures#Supported_versions |