Re: [gentoo-user] What is with the gnome overlay?

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
> Has something happened to the gnome overlay.
>
> It seems to exist
>
>    oldlap ~ # layman -L | grep gnome
>     * gnome                 [Git       ] (git://git.o.g.o/proj/gnome.git, h...)
>     * gnome-live            [Git       ] (git://git.o.g.o/proj/gnome-live.g...)
>
> But it seems to not exist
>
>    oldlap ~ # layman -s gnome
>
>     * Fetching remote list,...
>     * Remote list already up to date: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml
>     * Last-modified: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:30:15 GMT
>     * Fetch Ok
>
>     * Syncing selected overlays,...
>     *
>     * Errors:
>     * ------
>     * Failed to select overlay "gnome".
>     * Error was: Exception: Overlay "gnome" does not exist.

I have not used that overlay, and don't know what's happening, but in
general when the overlay address changes, you need to delete and
re-add the overlay. So I always try that if I get a strange error like
you're getting.