Bug 154828 – app-portage/layman-1.0.6 does not write to /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Hans Halvorson 2006-11-11 11:15:17 UTC]

The instructions for layman say to create an empty file:

"/usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf"

But then running "layman -a foo" gives the error message:

* Failed to add overlay "foo".
* Error was: Did not find a PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry in file /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf! Did you specify the correct file?

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-11-11 11:35:12 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149867 ***

[Comment 2 Hans Halvorson 2006-11-11 12:45:28 UTC]

This is different issue than bug 149867 -- that bug reports that layman does not create the make.conf file.  We were already aware of that issue (as it is described in the  Gentoo overlay guide).  The new issue is that even after manually creating the (empty) file, there is an error message, namely:

* Failed to add overlay "haskell".
* Error was: Did not find a PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry in file /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf! Did you specify the correct file?

The file exists, but layman does not seem to be inserting the appropriate entries into the file.

[Comment 3 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2006-11-11 14:23:38 UTC]

Instructions modified. thanks for the report.