Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Konsole

[Alan McKinnon]

On 11/07/2016 22:07, konsolebox wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3:18 AM, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, that led me to sync the kde-sunset overlay. However, I think I
>> am missing a step as when I use emerge or eshowkw it doesn't seem to
>> show anything from the kde-sunset overlay. layman usually handled this
>> stuff, any pointers?
>>
>
> Well, that was the only thing I had to do to make it work.
>
> Did you check if the files were properly downloaded after running
> `emerge --sync`?  E.g. check if /var/local/overlays/kde-sunset/*
> exist?  How do you know that nothing is shown from there.  What
> command do you use?  Do you have any custom package masks that would
> not make the packages show perhaps?  Also, how did you add the
> repos.conf file for kde-sunset?  I presumed that you know that
> /etc/portage/repos.conf should be a directory.  Did you perhaps only
> added a single repos.conf file?
>
> # cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/{gentoo.conf,kde-sunset.conf,local.conf}
> [gentoo]
> location = /var/lib/gentoo/portage
> sync-type = git
> sync-uri = git://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git
> sync-git-pull-extra-opts = -f
> auto-sync = yes
> [kde-sunset]
> auto-sync = yes
> location = /var/local/overlays/kde-sunset
> masters = gentoo
> sync-type = git
> sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/kde-sunset.git
> [local]
> masters = gentoo
> priority = 10
> location = /var/local/portage
>
> If it still doesn't work, maybe there's an old configuration line in
> your `make.conf` that should no longer be there.  Or maybe you're
> using an old sys-apps/portage, or some other tools that make it change
> its behavior.  Although both are unlikely.
>
> Another note: At least with portage-2.3.0, you should see "=== Sync
> completed for kde-sunset" after running `emerge --sync`.
>

There was an old deprecated *OVERLAY setting in make.conf that must be 
removed when using the new repos.conf

Alan