Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Konsole

[Alan McKinnon]

On 11/07/2016 23:05, konsolebox wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:50 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Indeed, but I'm still doubting that it has something to do with
> packages from kde-sunset not appearing with emerge, granting he was
> already able to do `emerge --sync` properly as what he said.
>



Daniel,

Please clarify what you mean by "doesn't seem to show anything from the 
kde-sunset overlay", preferably with config files and output of suitable 
emerge commands.

Alan