installing gentoo bazaar overlay

[Aaron Bentley]

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Thomas Nichols wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In order to start experimenting with bzr-svn, I'd like to install the
> overlay described at https://launchpad.net/bzr-gentoo-overlay/
> 
> However, this references http://bzr.malept.com/bazaar-overlay/ -- which
> appears to be empty

It's a Bazaar branch.  They often appear empty, because all the data is
in the .bzr directory.

> $ bzr branch svn+ssh://www.xmlv.com/usr/local/svn/nb nb
> bzr-svn is not up to date with installed bzr version 1.2.0.
> There should be a newer version of bzr-svn available.

Jelmer has not yet produced a version of bzr-svn compatible with 1.2.0.

> Does the (understandable) familiarity of bzr developers with
> ubuntu/debian mean that gentoo support is less up-to-date? Have I missed
> something critical here?

It's true that most of the core developers user Ubuntu, but Gentoo
doesn't sound especially out-of-date.

Aaron
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