layman-global.txt has not been supported by layman versions in gentoo-x86 since 17 Jul 2011 when the last of the versions supporting it were removed. All layman versions now use repositories.xml. layman-global.txt can be removed along with the script(s) that autogenerate it. Reproducible: Always
Robin, it's time to disable your hook. I'm not aware of any other use of that file from the overlays team
Hook is disabled now. Please remove layman-global.txt
Good bye
'layman -S' fails now for me with: ... * Successfully synchronized overlay "sunrise". * * CLI: Errors occured processing action sync_all * RemoteDB.cache(); HTTPError was: * url: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt * HTTP Error 404: Not Found This happens also after a new reinstallation of layman () and doing dispatch-conf, which nothing find to update. I have manually to replace overlays : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt by overlays : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml in /etc/layman/layman.cfg.
repositories.xml has been the default in layman.cfg since layman-1.2.4. I did notice that I made a mistake by stating layman-global.txt was "not supported" when it is still, but by default uses to the new repositories.xml format file. Your issue seems to be that dispatch-conf memorized your zapping of the url change that occurred long ago, so wasn't reporting it as an update. I didn't know dispatch-conf did that.
