Hi, I just installed via Gentoo::RAP this: >>> Completed installing layman-2.4.1-r1 into /apps/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/app-portage/layman-2.4.1-r1/image/ * Final size of build directory: 1632 KiB * Final size of installed tree: 2352 KiB ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /usr/share/doc ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /usr/share/man >>> Installing (1 of 1) app-portage/layman-2.4.1-r1::gentoo * Running layman-updater... * Creating layman's repos.conf file * create_repos_conf() error creating /etc/portage/repos.conf: * "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/portage/repos.conf'" * You are now ready to add overlays into your system. * * layman -L * * will display a list of available overlays. * * Select an overlay and add it using * * layman -a overlay-name * * >>> Recording app-portage/layman in "world" favorites file... $ layman -a science * Adding overlay... * Warning: an installed db file was not found at: ['/apps/gentoo/var/lib/layman/cache_930c3ed4a5f89f74fd810585751a06e3.xml'] * Exception: Overlay "science" does not exist. * CLI: Errors occurred processing action add * Exception: Overlay "science" does not exist. My EPREFIX="/apps/gentoo". I see, I have to edit my make.conf to provide some values like: PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/apps/gentoo/var/lib/layman" source /apps/gentoo/var/lib/layman/make.conf Then I tried: $ layman -L * Fetching remote list... * Warning: an installed db file was not found at: ['/apps/gentoo/var/lib/layman/cache_930c3ed4a5f89f74fd810585751a06e3.xml'] * Fetch Ok * 0x4d4c [Git ] (https://github.com/0x4d4c/gentoo-overlay.git, git://github.com/0x4d4c/gentoo-overlay.git, git@github.com:0x4d4c/gentoo-overlay.git ... $ layman -a science * Adding overlay... * Running Git... # ( cd /apps/gentoo/var/lib/layman && /apps/gentoo/usr/bin/git clone git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/sci.git /apps/gentoo/var/lib/layman/science ) Cloning into '/apps/gentoo/var/lib/layman/science'... remote: Counting objects: 105218, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (43204/43204), done. remote: Total 105218 (delta 65412), reused 100152 (delta 60900) Receiving objects: 100% (105218/105218), 23.49 MiB | 8.90 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (65412/65412), done. * Running Git... # ( cd /apps/gentoo/var/lib/layman/science && /apps/gentoo/usr/bin/git config user.name "layman" ) * Running Git... # ( cd /apps/gentoo/var/lib/layman/science && /apps/gentoo/usr/bin/git config user.email "layman@localhost" ) * CLI: Errors occurred processing action add * Exception caught installing repository "science": * /etc/portage/repos.conf is not a directory when it should be. $ So, somewhat I got through but the path is: $ ls -latr /apps/gentoo/etc/portage/repos.conf -rw-r----- 1 mmokrejs mmokrejs 306 Jan 6 15:23 /apps/gentoo/etc/portage/repos.conf $ $ cat /apps/gentoo/etc/portage/repos.conf [DEFAULT] main-repo = gentoo eclass-overrides = rap [gentoo] location = /apps/gentoo/usr/portage sync-type = rsync sync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage [rap] location = /apps/gentoo/usr/portage-stage sync-type = git sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/android.git auto-sync = no $ Looks layman needs a fix to respect EPREFIX somewhere.
Thanks for this report. It does look like we broke EPREFIX support somewhere. Also, side-note. You should migrate to the repos.conf settings method for portage. See layman-updater which can perform the migration for you.
Created attachment 460138 [details, diff] layman-prefix.patch Hello, Brian. The problem is in layman.cfg #----------------------------------------------------------- # Path to the repos.conf file that should be modified by # layman repos_conf : /etc/portage/repos.conf/layman.conf This patch fixes it.
*** Bug 587474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Oops, an old bug had exactly the same patch. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 587474 ***
