On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:10:11 -0800
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a layman noob, so I'm probably making a noob mistake here. Can
you spot the error for me please?
No problem, let's find wally ... I mean ... the error. :)
#ls -la /var/lib/layman/
total 312
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 4096 Dec 13 15:11 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 9 15:16 .keep_app-portage_layman-0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Jan 9 15:23
cache_ac494f50f5736be7871962c0dec7b3bb.timestamp -rw-r--r-- 1 root
root 294573 Jan 9 15:23 cache_ac494f50f5736be7871962c0dec7b3bb.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root616 Jan 9 15:23 installed.xml -rw-r--r--
1 root root 38 Jan 9 15:14 make.conf drwxr-xr-x 25 root root
4096 Jan 9 15:23 mate
Looks good and similar to mine.
#cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf
PORTDIR_OVERLAY='/usr/local/portage'
Why do you cat this file? Did you change it?
#ls -la /usr/local/portage/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:18 metadata
Should be fine, I think it is unrelated to the error.
So, what's my problem? (I've already installed the 'mate' overlay):
Given that you inspect those folders, did you change something there?
#layman -d mate
* Deleting selected overlays,...
* CLI: Errors occurred processing action delete
* Exception caught disabling repository 'mate':
* MakeConf: read(); Did not find a PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry in
file /var/lib/layman/make.conf! Did you specify the correct file?
We both see it, so, that's alright. But why doesn't layman see it?
You need to add this to /etc/portage/make.conf:
source /var/lib/layman/make.conf
Then layman will be able to see it.
I've read and re-read that make.conf file and I don't see anything
wrong with it -- but my eyes are not so good lately. Is there a typo
or something?
If you changed it, you might want to start over by
removing /var/lib/layman and emerging it again, then add your overlays
back; to ensure it is correct again.
If you want to do it manually, let's say you have overlay aaa and bbb;
then /var/lib/layman/make.conf contents would be like this:
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=
/var/lib/layman/aaa
/var/lib/layman/bbb
$PORTDIR_OVERLAY
/usr/local/portage
Are the file perms okay? I tried chown-ing everything to
portage:portage but that didn't change anything. I'm stumped.
Unsure if that works; but if it is an error, put it back to root
or otherwise just remove and reinstall layman would help.
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Gentoo Developer
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