Overlay Contents

The Hacking Networked Solutions overlay for Gentoo Linux provides a number of ebuild files for a variety of different packages. A brief description of each package, along with some useful links to documentation, examples of how to use the package in question, and any upstream web sites where appropriate, can be found below.

app-admin/buildserver-scripts

The app-admin/buildserver-scripts package provides a collection of scripts to assist in the running of a "build-server".

Documentation relating to the use of the app-admin/buildserver-scripts package to maintain a build server can be found in the Build-server utilities for Gentoo Linux and Automated package building system for Gentoo Linux sections of this website.

app-admin/buildspace-scripts

The app-admin/buildspace-scripts package provides a collection of scripts to automatically build updated binary packages inside a "build-space".

Documentation relating to the use of the app-admin/buildspace-scripts package to maintain one or more build spaces can be found in the Build-space utilities for Gentoo Linux and Automated package building system for Gentoo Linux sections of this website.

dev-libs/bash-outlogger

The dev-libs/bash-outlogger package provides a library script written in BASH providing functions to assist generating log output and managing the generated log files.

Documentation relating to the use of the dev-libs/bash-outlogger package can be found in the Output and error logging library for Bash section of this website.

net-firewall/ipsec-tools

The net-firewall/ipsec-tools package provides a port of KAME's IPsec utilities to the Linux 2.6+ IPsec implementation. The ebuild files offered in the default portage repository are for the stable 0.7.x versions. The ebuild files contained in this overlay are for the 0.8.x series alpha releases.

Documentation relating to the use of the net-firewall/ipsec-tools package to provide IPsec secured network connectivity can be found in the Encrypting network traffic using IPsec section of this website. Additional information can also be found on the IPsec Tools Homepage◳.