Re: [gentoo-user] Frustrating error message from layman

[Tom Wijsman]

On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:10:11 -0800
walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:

> I'm a layman noob, so I'm probably making a noob mistake here. Can
> you spot the error for me please?

No problem, let's find wally ... I mean ... the error. :)

> #ls -la /var/lib/layman/
> total 312
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 Jan  9 15:23 .
> drwxr-xr-x 35 root root   4096 Dec 13 15:11 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 Jan  9 15:16 .keep_app-portage_layman-0
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     29 Jan  9 15:23
> cache_ac494f50f5736be7871962c0dec7b3bb.timestamp -rw-r--r--  1 root
> root 294573 Jan  9 15:23 cache_ac494f50f5736be7871962c0dec7b3bb.xml
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    616 Jan  9 15:23 installed.xml -rw-r--r--
> 1 root root     38 Jan  9 15:14 make.conf drwxr-xr-x 25 root root
> 4096 Jan  9 15:23 mate

Looks good and similar to mine.

> #cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY='/usr/local/portage'

Why do you cat this file? Did you change it?

> #ls -la /usr/local/portage/
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jan  9 15:17 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jan  9 15:05 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jan  9 15:18 metadata

Should be fine, I think it is unrelated to the error.

> So, what's my problem?  (I've already installed the 'mate' overlay):

Given that you inspect those folders, did you change something there?

> #layman -d mate
>
>  * Deleting selected overlays,...
>
>  * CLI: Errors occurred processing action delete
>  * Exception caught disabling repository 'mate':
>  * MakeConf: read(); Did not find a PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry in
> file /var/lib/layman/make.conf! Did you specify the correct file?

We both see it, so, that's alright. But why doesn't layman see it?

You need to add this to /etc/portage/make.conf:

    source /var/lib/layman/make.conf

Then layman will be able to see it.

> I've read and re-read that make.conf file and I don't see anything
> wrong with it -- but my eyes are not so good lately.  Is there a typo
> or something?

If you changed it, you might want to start over by
removing /var/lib/layman and emerging it again, then add your overlays
back; to ensure it is correct again.

If you want to do it manually, let's say you have overlay aaa and bbb;
then /var/lib/layman/make.conf contents would be like this:

    PORTDIR_OVERLAY="
    /var/lib/layman/aaa
    /var/lib/layman/bbb
    $PORTDIR_OVERLAY
    /usr/local/portage"

> Are the file perms okay?  I tried chown-ing everything to
> portage:portage but that didn't change anything.  I'm stumped.

Unsure if that works; but if it is an error, put it back to root
or otherwise just remove and reinstall layman would help.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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