Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] layman: hard-coded fetching from gentoo.org and broken overlays when an 'add' is interrupted

[Amit Dor-Shifer]

Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:09:21AM +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
>
>> Hi all. Some questions rgd layman:
>>
>>   1. Seems like layman is hard-wired to contain the layman-global.txt
>>      list of overlays. What's the reasoning behind this? My issue
>>      w/this is that, lately, when gentoo.org was unreachable, this
>>      hard-wiring presented considerable hangs on fetch attempts.
>>
> It's definitely NOT hardcoded.
> # grep www.gentoo.org /etc/layman/layman.cfg
> overlays  : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml
>
>
amit0 ~ # grep -A 10 self.defaults\ = 
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/layman/config.py
        self.defaults = {'config'    : '/etc/layman/layman.cfg',
                         'storage'   : '/usr/portage/local/layman',
                         'cache'     : '%(storage)s/cache',
                         'local_list': '%(storage)s/overlays.xml',
                         'make_conf' : '%(storage)s/make.conf',
                         'nocheck'   : 'yes',
                         'proxy'     : '',
                         'umask'     : '0022',
                         'overlays'  :
*                         
'http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.'*
                         'txt',}

When I invoke the following, I see http interaction w/gentoo.org:

layman -c /dev/null -N -f -a oversi -o file:///tmp/layman-oversi.xml

which AFAIK doesn't read /etc/layman/layman.cfg.

http interaction indicated by running 'tshark host www.gentoo.org' while 
executing the above.

Amit