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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:10:40
Message-Id: landol$7te$1@ger.gmane.org
1 I'm a layman noob, so I'm probably making a noob mistake here. Can
2 you spot the error for me please?
3
4 #ls -la /var/lib/layman/
5 total 312
6 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:23 .
7 drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 4096 Dec 13 15:11 ..
8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 9 15:16 .keep_app-portage_layman-0
9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Jan 9 15:23 cache_ac494f50f5736be7871962c0dec7b3bb.timestamp
10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 294573 Jan 9 15:23 cache_ac494f50f5736be7871962c0dec7b3bb.xml
11 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 616 Jan 9 15:23 installed.xml
12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38 Jan 9 15:14 make.conf
13 drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:23 mate
14
15 #cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf
16 PORTDIR_OVERLAY='/usr/local/portage'
17
18 #ls -la /usr/local/portage/
19 total 12
20 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:17 .
21 drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:05 ..
22 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 9 15:18 metadata
23
24
25 So, what's my problem? (I've already installed the 'mate' overlay):
26
27 #layman -d mate
28
29 * Deleting selected overlays,...
30
31 * CLI: Errors occurred processing action delete
32 * Exception caught disabling repository 'mate':
33 * MakeConf: read(); Did not find a PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry in file /var/lib/layman/make.conf! Did you specify the correct file?
34
35 I've read and re-read that make.conf file and I don't see anything wrong
36 with it -- but my eyes are not so good lately. Is there a typo or something?
37
38 Are the file perms okay? I tried chown-ing everything to portage:portage but that
39 didn't change anything. I'm stumped.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>