# layman -a MY_REPOSITORY * Running command "/usr/bin/svn co "http://domain.org/MY_REPOSITORY" "/usr/portage/local/layman/MY_REPOSITORY""... A /usr/portage/local/layman/MY_REPOSITORY/FILE_A A /usr/portage/local/layman/MY_REPOSITORY/FILE_B ... Checked out revision REVISION_NUMBER. * Failed to add overlay "MY_REPOSITORY". * Error was: Failed to write to local overlays file: /usr/portage/local/layman/overlays.xml * Error was: * 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u014c' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128) It also broke /usr/portage/local/layman/overlays.xml: # layman -S Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/layman", line 37, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/layman", line 34, in main Actions(Config()) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/layman/action.py", line 397, in __init__ result += i[1](config).run() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/layman/action.py", line 89, in __init__ self.db = DB(config) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/layman/db.py", line 59, in __init__ quiet) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/layman/overlay.py", line 76, in __init__ self.read_file(path) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/layman/overlay.py", line 90, in read_file self.read(document) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/layman/overlay.py", line 110, in read raise Exception('Failed to parse the overlay list!\nError was:\n' Exception: Failed to parse the overlay list! Error was: no element found: line 56, column 0
Thanks for the note. layman-1.1 is in the tree and this should be fixed.