[gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I can layman -a ecatmur.

[Mark David Dumlao]

I'm currently dual-booting a machine that I'd like to shift completely to
gentoo, but I left an ubuntu installaiton in the other disk (where I hope to
transfer my gentoo).  However, my brother has been downloading some torrents
for weeks on end, and their sessions have been left alive in the
gnome-btdownload interface.  It gets annoying when he boots up to ubuntu
sometimes because I often remotely login to my machine and all.

So I thought to install gnome-btdownload.  Unfortunately I couldnt find it
in portage a few weeks ago, and I just forgot about it.  Today I logged in
remotely to my machine, remembered my old problem, and decided to hunt for
an ebuild.  I noticed that it's in the ecatmur tree, so I thought just to
add it on layman and get it done with.

TOTALLY WEIRD.  I do a layman -L on my machine and strangely enough, ecatmur
isn't listed.  I think I've used it beore on layman though, so I look up the
overlays listing on the gentoo overlays list, here:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt

Sure enough, ecatmur is present.  So I just blindly go layman -a ecatmur and
he gets added.

I don't understand why layman wouldn't report ecatmur in his listing but
accepts ecatmur there anyway when I add?  Is this a bug?

trixie / # layman --version
1.1.1
trixie / # emerge --version
Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2,
glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-ck1 x86_64)

weird?

I remember somewhere that there was something you had to edit to make the
overlays appear in the listing, (the stock layman would only show a few
entries I think).  Maybe this is an extension of that idea but I couldn't
find what to edit in the documentation.  Any ideas?
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thing.