installing gentoo bazaar overlay

[Thomas Nichols]

Aaron Bentley wrote on 2008/03/11 19:01:
> 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.

:-D
I'd missed that completely and claim my free eejut hat.
>
> > $ 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.

Thanks, I'll stick with 1.1 for bzr-svn experiments then.
>
> > 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 doesn't sound especially out-of-date.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
Thanks for the clear answers.

-- Thomas.