Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I can layman -a ecatmur.

[Joshua D Doll]

Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> I'm currently dual-booting a machine that I'd like to shift completely
> to gentoo, but I left an ubuntu installaiton in the other disk (where
> I hope to transfer my gentoo).  However, my brother has been
> downloading some torrents for weeks on end, and their sessions have
> been left alive in the gnome-btdownload interface.  It gets annoying
> when he boots up to ubuntu sometimes because I often remotely login to
> my machine and all.
>
> So I thought to install gnome-btdownload.  Unfortunately I couldnt
> find it in portage a few weeks ago, and I just forgot about it.  Today
> I logged in remotely to my machine, remembered my old problem, and
> decided to hunt for an ebuild.  I noticed that it's in the ecatmur
> tree, so I thought just to add it on layman and get it done with.
>
> TOTALLY WEIRD.  I do a layman -L on my machine and strangely enough,
> ecatmur isn't listed.  I think I've used it beore on layman though, so
> I look up the overlays listing on the gentoo overlays list, here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt
>
> Sure enough, ecatmur is present.  So I just blindly go layman -a
> ecatmur and he gets added.
>
> I don't understand why layman wouldn't report ecatmur in his listing
> but accepts ecatmur there anyway when I add?  Is this a bug?
>
> trixie / # layman --version
> 1.1.1
> trixie / # emerge --version
> Portage 2.1.3.19 <http://2.1.3.19>
> (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
> 2.6.22-ck1 x86_64)
>
> weird?
>
> I remember somewhere that there was something you had to edit to make
> the overlays appear in the listing, (the stock layman would only show
> a few entries I think).  Maybe this is an extension of that idea but I
> couldn't find what to edit in the documentation.  Any ideas?
> --
> thing.
Try layman -Lk  

  -k, --nocheck       Do not check overlay definitions and do not issue a
                        warning if description or contact information are
                        missing.

--Joshua Doll
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