On 08/17/2011 02:45 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 17.08.2011 18:27, schrieb Valmor de Almeida: >> Hello, >> >> At work, I typically use emerge-webrsync to sync the portage tree. >> But I don't know how to sync the layman tree. >> This >> >> layman --sync ALL >> >> does not work. I guess because git pull does not work across the >> firewall. Is there a solution to this besides requesting a firewall >> exception? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Valmor >> > > Well, at least some overlays support fetching via http. `layman -L` > shows all available URLs for fetching. In /etc/layman/layman.cfg, you > can also specify a proxy. In theory, that should allow you to fetch all > these overlays. > > The remaining problem is: How do you tell layman to prefer the http > connection over the native protocol? I haven't found such an option. > Maybe you have to try it out yourself or open a bug for a feature request. > > Worst case: create your own overlay list which only contains the http > connections. The documentation shows how to do this. > > Hope this helps, > Florian Philipp >
Thanks for the inputs. -- Valmor
