Re: [gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman

2014-01-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-09 7:10 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: #cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf PORTDIR_OVERLAY='/usr/local/portage' Shouldn't those be double quotes? #cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage Mine is: PORTDIR_OVERLAY= /var/lib/layman/gnustep

[gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman

2014-01-09 Thread walt
I'm a layman noob, so I'm probably making a noob mistake here. Can you spot the error for me please? #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

Re: [gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman

2014-01-09 Thread Tom Wijsman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman

2014-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 09 Jan 2014 16:10:11 walt wrote: #cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf PORTDIR_OVERLAY='/usr/local/portage' You're short of the rest of the definition. Here's mine: $ cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf PORTDIR_OVERLAY= /var/lib/layman/owncloud-client $PORTDIR_OVERLAY Of course there's no