I just added a overlay, regular one, plus I have one of my own. I added one right after my initial install, voyager. Keep in mind, I run emerge and such as root. It won't matter for me but if you plan to run emerge as a user, it will matter. This is what mine looks like.
root@Gentoo-1 / # ls /var/db/repos/ total 24 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:29 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:38 .. drwxr-xr-x 177 portage portage 4096 Oct 26 01:11 gentoo drwxr-xr-x 144 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:29 guru drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:37 localrepo drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:35 voyageur root@Gentoo-1 / # As you can see, the gentoo directory is portage:portage. However, my local overlay and two regular overlays are root:root. That is likely because I was root when I added them. The benefit of portage:portage is that you can add a user to the portage group and it should work permissions wise. If I added my user to the portage group and tried to run emerge, I'd likely get a permissions error with the settings above. Like I said, I'm no guru but if I'm wrong, odds are someone will chime in soon. Of course, you could just try it and see if it works. If not, change it back. ;-) Dale :-) :-) P. S. My garden is about to get rain. It's been at least a month since last one. My greens will be so happy. :-D William McGonagle wrote: > I appreciate the advice, I will try that. I just installed a few days > ago, and all my overlays are owned by root. I've seen a lot of > conflicting info on this, but I don't see how changing the permissions > like you said could cause any problems. Thanks again! > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 7:40 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> William McGonagle wrote: >>> I want to develop a local overlay on my system, sync it with git, and >>> be able to sign my commits with gpg. How can i set the permissions of >>> my overlay so that I can do this as a regular user securely? Would it >>> be fine to just make me the owner of that directory? >>> >>> >> >> I'm no expert at this but in the past, I set permissions this way. >> portage:portage and then add the user to the portage group. When you >> first install Gentoo, that is the default permissions, last I looked >> anyway. That should work. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >
