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Simplified Gentoo install instructions now that our overlay is in the official layman repositories.xml list
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Andy Rothfusz 2013-09-19 13:41:29 -07:00
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@ -25,15 +25,11 @@ Ensure that layman is installed:
sudo emerge -av app-portage/layman
Using your favorite editor, add
``https://raw.github.com/tianon/docker-overlay/master/repositories.xml`` to the
``overlays`` section in ``/etc/layman/layman.cfg`` (as per instructions on the
`Gentoo Wiki <http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Layman#Adding_custom_overlays>`_),
then invoke the following:
Add the "docker" overlay using layman:
.. code-block:: bash
sudo layman -f -a docker
sudo layman -a docker
Once that completes, the ``app-emulation/docker`` package will be available
for emerge:
@ -44,7 +40,7 @@ for emerge:
If you prefer to use the official binaries, or just do not wish to compile
docker, emerge ``app-emulation/docker-bin`` instead. It is important to
remember that Gentoo is still an unsupported platform, even when using the
remember that Gentoo is still an unofficial platform, even when using the
official binaries.
The package should already include all the necessary dependencies. For the
@ -123,3 +119,7 @@ Unfortunately, Gentoo suffers from `issue #1422
fresh start of docker, the first docker run fails due to some tricky terminal
issues, so be sure to run something trivial (such as ``docker run -i -t busybox
echo hi``) before attempting to run anything important.
There is a tentative (and very hacky) workaround for this in the OpenRC init
script, and it can be enabled by modifying the appropriate value in
``/etc/conf.d/docker`` after successful installation.