Re: [gentoo-user] layman config file setup?

[Mick]

On Saturday, 9 March 2019 20:04:46 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I originally had...
>
> [palemoon]
> priority = 50
> location = /var/lib/layman/palemoon
> layman-type = git
> auto-sync = No
>
>   I ran "layman -S"; no difference. I copied your config, ran "layman -S"
> and now I get...
>
> =========================================================================
>
> [i660][root][~] emerge -pv layman
> !!! Repository 'palemoon' has sync-type attribute set to unsupported value:
> 'laymansync' !!!

This is odd.  Is it reading some other repo file?

> Installed sync-types are: '['cvs', 'git', 'rsync', 'svn',
> 'webrsync']' WARNING: One or more repositories have missing repo_name
> entries:
>
>         /var/lib/layman/profiles/repo_name
>
> NOTE: Each repo_name entry should be a plain text file containing a
> unique name for the repository on the first line.

OK, try this:

echo palemoon /var/lib/layman/profiles/palemoon


> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R    ] app-portage/layman-2.4.2-r1::gentoo  USE="git -bazaar -cvs
> -darcs (-g-sorcery) -gpg -mercurial -sqlite -squashfs -subversion
> -sync-plugin-portage -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 (-pypy)
> -python3_4 -python3_5" 0 KiB
>
> =========================================================================
>
>   Is there anything unusual in my USE flags?

Not really.  In addition to yours I have sqlite and subversion set on mine, 
because git is not used by all overlays I'm interested in.

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Regards,
Mick