List of overlays

This is an incomplete list of some Gentoo overlays available through layman. If you are looking for information about overlays, you may want to check Overlay.

Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay
Project Sunrise offers an overlay made by Gentoo users and developers, new ebuilds submitted to bugzilla now often go to sunrise before the main tree. The ebuilds need to meet a certain QA level (such as not being a direct security attack), and commits are watched by Gentoo developers. So it is worth checking to see if the package you need is in sunrise first.

Install the overlay by using layman as described above, then use:

Overlays loosely tracking a Herd
Some herds may test out software in an overlay. Use of one of these overlays by end-users is as unsupported and at your own risk as any other overlay. However, a Java company may want to track future Java packages on a test box for example.

Science Overlay
The Science Overlay is intended as a place to work outside of the main Portage tree on experimental ebuilds. Our new herd testers have commit access here too, and so it also provides invaluable experience as well as allowing us to add ebuilds at a faster pace than is normal. This overlay is unofficial, and bugs with overlay ebuilds should not be reported using the official http://bugs.gentoo.org page.

Link: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/sci.git

Old link: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/science

Web-Based Applications Overlay
This is the home of Gentoo's wider collection of ebuilds for web-based applications. This is where we collect all the ebuilds submitted to Bugzilla by our users, and make them available in an easy-to-use overlay for wider testing.

Link: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/webapps/wiki

GCJ Overlay
If you want to experiment with GJK as a JDK to compile Java to native code.

Link: http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/java/gcj-overlay/

Gnome
The experimental Gnome tree is for testing development releases of GNOME.

Link: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/gnome/wiki

PHP Overlay
The PHP Overlay is a testbed for new and improved PHP packages for Gentoo. It's a place where Gentoo developers and users alike can work together on providing Gentoo Linux with the very best PHP support that there is, for any platform.

Link: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/php/

Emacs Overlay
Here you will find packages and ebuilds developed in the Emacs Project, which contains GNU Emacs, XEmacs and the corresponding Elisp packages and eclasses. Being work-in-progress, their functionality cannot be guaranteed.

Link: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/emacs.git

Bazaar
Unofficial ebuilds for the Bazaar version control system and related software/plugins.

Link: https://launchpad.net/bzr-gentoo-overlay

Berkano
This overlay has bleeding-edge multimedia ebuilds and handy system administration tools and a few other things.

Link: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-508174.html

Catalyst Framework
Unofficial ebuilds for the great Catalyst MVC Framework.

Link: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Catalyst_Framework

DYSTRYK LiveCD Overlay
DYSTRYK Overlay is mainly for Ukranian, Russian and Belorussian Gentoo localization. Also it containt ebuilds for some programs written in those countries. Overlay can be found in.

Link: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116780&package_id=211038

Ebuild Exchange (dead)
User-submitted ebuilds.

Link: http://ebuildexchange.org/

Ecatmur's Trees (dead)
An extensive Portage tree and a large patch collection. Gnome candy, scientific applications, iBook hardware, bcm43xx snapshots. Most stuff is in Gentoo bugzilla, but not all. Now stored in subversion, which should make downloading and syncing easier.

Link: http://catmur.co.uk/gentoo/

Erazor Zone
Ebuilds of interest to embedded developers.

Link: http://wiki.erazor-zone.de/wiki:projects:linux:gentoo

Gentopia
Contains ebuilds for many freedesktop.org Project Utopia packages.

Link: http://gentopia.gentooexperimental.org/

JHCloos
James Cloos' Portage overlay.

Link: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~cloos/overlay/

KDE SVN Unofficial Ebuilds (dead)
Unofficial overlay providing live KDE development ebuilds enabling you to build KDE from the KDE subversion repository.

Link: http://genkdesvn.mailstation.de/

Moonitor
Moonitor is a dbus monitoring suite for emerge with KDE panel support, a Qt Widget and an ncurses CLI.

Link: http://moonitor.org/

Novell4Gentoo
This Overlay provides some Novell binary only software like novell-client, novell-groupwise-gwclient, novell-iprint-xclient, novell-consoleone, and novell-edirectory.

Link: http://n4g.disconnected-by-peer.at/

OSSDL Overlay for servers
OSSDL-Overlay contains stable and cutting-edge and tested ebuilds for mailservers, databases and related stuff. E.g., MonetDB, Redis, Nginx, PHP-FPM

Link: http://git.ossdl.de/cgit/ossdl-overlay/ Mirror at Github: http://github.com/wmark/ossdl-overlay

Pro-Audio Overlay
It provides a lot of software for professional audio usage, rt-sources and some other things not in official Portage (yet). In most cases you will get the latest version of an app, with all possible features that are available. Also bleeding edge CVS and SVN ebuilds are available for many applications.

Link: http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

SynCE
The SynCE project provides a means of communication with a Windows Mobile device from a computer running Linux, *BSD or other unixes using USB or Bluetooth. You can browse files, install applications and synchronize contacts, calendar and tasks with your PIM application of choice. SynCE works with Windows Mobile 4, 5, and 6. SynCE is designed to work as a replacement for ActiveSync, hence no installation or hacking is required on the mobile device.

Link: http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation/Gentoo

Zugaina
"Some ebuilds for programs not (yet) in the Portage tree. All these ebuilds are experimental"

Link: http://gpo.zugaina.org/

Pentoo
IT Security and Forensic related ebuilds

Link: http://www.pentoo.ch/ Source code: https://code.google.com/p/pentoo/

anderse (Anders Evenrud's overlay)
My Gentoo/Funtoo Overlay -- Mostly up-to-date packages that has not reached official repos, some bleeding-edge and unstable ebuilds, my hobby projects

Link: https://github.com/andersevenrud/anderse-overlay

Info: http://anderse.wordpress.com/my-linux-articles/

Krontage
Ebuilds that has not reached official tree but used on production servers by myself.

Link: git://github.com/undying/krontage.git

Http Link: https://github.com/undying/krontage