Installing the Hacking Networked Solutions patch-set for Gentoo Linux
Installing the HNS Overlay for Gentoo Linux
In this guide we shall be using the app-portage/auto-patch-portage package which is not part of the official Gentoo Linux distribution and is therefore not available on a vanilla installation. The Hacking Networked Solutions overlay for Gentoo Linux contains the app-portage/autopatch package and should therefore be installed before this guide can be followed.
Installing the Autopatch package
Before we install any packages we should ensure that the correct use-flags will be used so that all required functionality is made available and unnecessary functionality is not included. The app-portage/auto-patch-portage package does not currently provide any use-flags however its dependencies may. As usual feel free to add and remove use-flags at will although the minimum set which are required for using this guide in its entirety are shown below.
Calculating dependencies... done!
Once you are confident that the correct use-flags are set for the app-portage/auto-patch-portage package, and any dependencies it may require, you can proceed with the installation by issuing the emerge command shown below.