On Tue, 07 May 2019 13:05:59 +0200 Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@skynet.be> wrote:
> Hi, > I'm struggling with layman. Using version 2.4.2-r1 as well as version > 9999 I get > for several overlays like for palemoon : > > layman -a palemoon > > * Adding overlay... > * Overlay "palemoon" is not official. Continue installing? [y/n]: y > > * CLI: Errors occurred processing action add > * Exception caught installing repository "palemoon": > * unterminated character set at position 1 > > So, what does this error message really mean. > What file is involved and how to fix this? > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut > It looks like bug #676074[1] I've found a suitable workaround of looking at the versions of python I'm building layman for, and explicitly telling it to use a version of Python other than 3.7 to run layman. katipo2 ~ # EPYTHON=python3.7 layman -a pentoo * Adding overlay... * CLI: Errors occurred processing action add * Exception caught installing repository "pentoo": * unterminated character set at position 1 katipo2 ~ # EPYTHON=python3.6 layman -a pentoo * Adding overlay... * Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman && /usr/bin/git clone https://github.com/pentoo/pentoo-overlay.git /var/lib/layman/pentoo ) * Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/pentoo && /usr/bin/git config user.name "layman" ) * Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/pentoo && /usr/bin/git config user.email "layman@localhost" ) * Successfully added overlay(s) pentoo. 1: https://bugs.gentoo.org/676074
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