Malevolent Cartography Write C Drink your coffee black Sleep on the floor github.com/qpfiffer qpfiffer+qpweb@gmail.com All Posts Nav 2020-04-23 by Quinlan Pfiffer software how-to I've been running Gentoo again recently, and one of the things I wanted to try out was building a personal overlay. The information here is cobbled together from things I learned personally, looking at the gentoo developer overlays , and just trying stuff until it worked. Note: In this document my repo name will be qpfiffer . Start a git repository somewhere on your machine, and add, at least, these files: . ├── LICENSE ├── metadata │   └── layout.conf ├── profiles │   └── repo_name layout.conf is pretty simple: masters = gentoo thing-manifests = true And profiles/repo_name looks like this (for me): qpfiffer That's really it. Now you can push it up to some git hosting provider ....