Layman fails to fetch or process an overlay list type mercurial from http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml Layman fails to parse or cache the list. I am not using a proxy. I have verified that I can wget http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml without using a proxy. The list.xml appears to be correct in its format. I have verified that fetching the overlay list from http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt works correctly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.layman -o http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml -f 2.layman -o http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml -L 3. Actual Results: * Failed to update the overlay list from: http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml * Error was: * Failed to parse the overlays list fetched from http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml * This means that the downloaded file is somehow corrupt or there was a problem with the webserver. Check the content of the file. Error was: * Failed to parse the overlay list! * Error was: * syntax error: line 1, column 62 * Failed to read a cached version of the overlay list from http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml. You probably did not download the file before. The corresponding entry in your layman.cfg file will be disregarded. * Error was: * Failed to read the overlay list at ("/usr/portage/local/layman/cache_65492b85e2641b97d3efa19aa0c736a7.xml")! * Error was: * [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/local/layman/cache_65492b85e2641b97d3efa19aa0c736a7.xml' * Failed to update the overlay list from: http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml * Error was: * Failed to parse the overlays list fetched from http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml * This means that the downloaded file is somehow corrupt or there was a problem with the webserver. Check the content of the file. Error was: * Failed to parse the overlay list! * Error was: * syntax error: line 1, column 62 * Failed to read a cached version of the overlay list from http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml. You probably did not download the file before. The corresponding entry in your layman.cfg file will be disregarded. * Error was: * Failed to read the overlay list at ("/usr/portage/local/layman/cache_65492b85e2641b97d3efa19aa0c736a7.xml")! * Error was: * [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/local/layman/cache_65492b85e2641b97d3efa19aa0c736a7.xml' * Failed to update the overlay list from: http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml * Error was: * Failed to parse the overlays list fetched from http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml * This means that the downloaded file is somehow corrupt or there was a problem with the webserver. Check the content of the file. Error was: * Failed to parse the overlay list! * Error was: * syntax error: line 1, column 62 * Failed to read a cached version of the overlay list from http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml. You probably did not download the file before. The corresponding entry in your layman.cfg file will be disregarded. * Error was: * Failed to read the overlay list at ("/usr/portage/local/layman/cache_65492b85e2641b97d3efa19aa0c736a7.xml")! * Error was: * [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/local/layman/cache_65492b85e2641b97d3efa19aa0c736a7.xml' * Failed to update the overlay list from: http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml * Error was: * Failed to parse the overlays list fetched from http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml * This means that the downloaded file is somehow corrupt or there was a problem with the webserver. Check the content of the file. Error was: * Failed to parse the overlay list! * Error was: * syntax error: line 1, column 62 * Failed to read a cached version of the overlay list from http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml. You probably did not download the file before. The corresponding entry in your layman.cfg file will be disregarded. * Error was: * Failed to read the overlay list at ("/usr/portage/local/layman/cache_65492b85e2641b97d3efa19aa0c736a7.xml")! * Error was: * [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/local/layman/cache_65492b85e2641b97d3efa19aa0c736a7.xml' Expected Results: Layman should have cached the list and allowed me to list using -L emerge --info: Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) Timestamp of tree: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt fam fortran gd gdbm gpm iconv isdnlog midi mmx mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse ssl symlink tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
That list.xml is not XML, it is HTML Transitional - could this be a problem? Namely, the xml header is missing, the DOCTYPE is in the wrong format and the icon link element is not closed.
Corrupt XML -> won't work.
In fact, that URL points to a page that describes the changes to list.xml in changeset 3fcd2bbc4bf7 ; if you want to use that as the descriptor you might want to try URL http://hg.plopbyte.net/gentoo-packages/raw-file/3fcd2bbc4bf7/list.xml
