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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] layman: hard-coded fetching from gentoo.org and broken overlays when an 'add' is interrupted
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:34:21
Message-Id: robbat2-20100421T213250-854567806Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] layman: hard-coded fetching from gentoo.org and broken overlays when an 'add' is interrupted by Amit Dor-Shifer
1 On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:09:21AM +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
2 > Hi all. Some questions rgd layman:
3 >
4 > 1. Seems like layman is hard-wired to contain the layman-global.txt
5 > list of overlays. What's the reasoning behind this? My issue
6 > w/this is that, lately, when gentoo.org was unreachable, this
7 > hard-wiring presented considerable hangs on fetch attempts.
8 It's definitely NOT hardcoded.
9 # grep www.gentoo.org /etc/layman/layman.cfg
10 overlays : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml
11
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13 Robin Hugh Johnson
14 Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
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