On Wed, Sep 21 2011, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> Has something happened to the gnome overlay.
>>
>> It seems to exist
>>
>> oldlap ~ # layman -L | grep gnome
>> * gnome [Git ] (git://git.o.g.o/proj/gnome.git,
>> h...)
>> * gnome-live [Git ]
>> (git://git.o.g.o/proj/gnome-live.g...)
>>
>> But it seems to not exist
>>
>> oldlap ~ # layman -s gnome
>>
>> * Fetching remote list,...
>> * Remote list already up to date:
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml
>> * Last-modified: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:30:15 GMT
>> * Fetch Ok
>>
>> * Syncing selected overlays,...
>> *
>> * Errors:
>> * ------
>> * Failed to select overlay "gnome".
>> * Error was: Exception: Overlay "gnome" does not exist.
>
> I have not used that overlay, and don't know what's happening, but in
> general when the overlay address changes, you need to delete and
> re-add the overlay. So I always try that if I get a strange error like
> you're getting.
Thanks for the tip but that seems to cause even more strange behavior.
Deleting says it is not there; adding says it is already there.
allan
oldlap ~ # layman -d gnome
* Deleting selected overlays,...
* Repository 'gnome' was not installed
oldlap ~ # layman -a gnome
* Adding overlay,...
* Running Git... # /usr/bin/git clone
git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/gnome.git /var/lib/layman/gnome
fatal: destination path '/var/lib/layman/gnome' already exists and is not
an empty directory.
* Failure result returned from Git
