diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/PRESUBMIT.cfg b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/PRESUBMIT.cfg
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-# This sample config file disables all of the ChromiumOS source style checks.
-# Comment out the disable-flags for any checks you want to leave enabled.
-
-[Hook Overrides]
-stray_whitespace_check: false
-long_line_check: false
-cros_license_check: false
-tab_check: false
-
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/README b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/README
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-Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
-Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
-found in the LICENSE file.
-
-This overlay contains Portage packages that are part of the Chromium OS build
-and are exact copies of upstream Portage packages.
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/README.md b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/README.md
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+This overlay contains curated unmodified Gentoo packages that are part
+of the CoreOS build and are exact copies of upstream Gentoo packages.
+
+Use `src/scripts/update_ebuilds` to fetch the latest copy from Gentoo:
+
+    cd ~/trunk/src/scripts
+    repo start update-foo ../third-party/portage-stable
+    ./update_ebuilds --commit app-fun/foo
+
+Note: `update_ebuilds` can fetch from either Gentoo's anonymous CVS or
+Rsync services, both of which will ban users making excessive requests.
+If you have a lot of related packages to update or just aren't quite
+sure what you are getting into please pull down a local copy to work
+from:
+
+    rsync -rtlv rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage ~/
+    ./update_ebuilds --commit --portage ~/gentoo-portage app-fun/foo
+
+Licensing information can be found in the respective files, so consult
+them directly. Most ebuilds are licensed under the GPL version 2.
+
+Upstream Gentoo sources: http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo-x86/
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/inherit-review-settings-ok b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/inherit-review-settings-ok
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