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Mark David Dumlao wrote: |
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> I'm currently dual-booting a machine that I'd like to shift completely |
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> to gentoo, but I left an ubuntu installaiton in the other disk (where |
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> I hope to transfer my gentoo). However, my brother has been |
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> downloading some torrents for weeks on end, and their sessions have |
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> been left alive in the gnome-btdownload interface. It gets annoying |
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> when he boots up to ubuntu sometimes because I often remotely login to |
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> my machine and all. |
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> |
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> So I thought to install gnome-btdownload. Unfortunately I couldnt |
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> find it in portage a few weeks ago, and I just forgot about it. Today |
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> I logged in remotely to my machine, remembered my old problem, and |
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> decided to hunt for an ebuild. I noticed that it's in the ecatmur |
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> tree, so I thought just to add it on layman and get it done with. |
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> |
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> TOTALLY WEIRD. I do a layman -L on my machine and strangely enough, |
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> ecatmur isn't listed. I think I've used it beore on layman though, so |
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> I look up the overlays listing on the gentoo overlays list, here: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt |
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> |
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> Sure enough, ecatmur is present. So I just blindly go layman -a |
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> ecatmur and he gets added. |
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> I don't understand why layman wouldn't report ecatmur in his listing |
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> but accepts ecatmur there anyway when I add? Is this a bug? |
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> |
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> trixie / # layman --version |
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> 1.1.1 |
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> trixie / # emerge --version |
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> Portage 2.1.3.19 <http://2.1.3.19> |
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> (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, |
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> 2.6.22-ck1 x86_64) |
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> weird? |
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> I remember somewhere that there was something you had to edit to make |
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> the overlays appear in the listing, (the stock layman would only show |
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> a few entries I think). Maybe this is an extension of that idea but I |
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> couldn't find what to edit in the documentation. Any ideas? |
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> -- |
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> thing. |
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Try layman -Lk |
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-k, --nocheck Do not check overlay definitions and do not issue a |
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warning if description or contact information are |
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missing. |
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--Joshua Doll |
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