After adding an overlay with `layman -a {overlay}` and finding that I no longer need it, I've tried deleting the overlay with `layman -d {overlay}`. Mostly this works, but every emerge operation after this issues a warning: !!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY (not a dir): '/var/lib/layman/{overlay}' This is the second time I've encountered this and apparently I'm not alone: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1035094-start-0.html The problem is that the overlay is still referenced in /var/lib/layman/make.conf. The workaround is to manually remove the /var/lib/layman/{overlay} line from /var/lib/layman/make.conf, but it would be neat if layman could do this as part of the -d operation Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add an overlay with `layman -a {overlay}` 2. Delete the overlay with `layman -d {overlay}` 3. Perform any emerge operation and have the warning "!!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY (not a dir): '/var/lib/layman/{overlay}'" issued every time. Actual Results: I receive the warning "!!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY (not a dir): '/var/lib/layman/{overlay}'" Expected Results: I should not receive the warning "!!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY (not a dir): '/var/lib/layman/{overlay}'" as the overlay has been removed from my system. Layman should remove the overlay dir from /var/lib/layman/make.conf as part of the -d operation
Layman has always deleted the make.conf entry. If it didn't then it seems there is a regression. Please include your layman.cfg file as well as your /etc/portage/make.conf. attachments are fine.
plus your emerge --info please
Created attachment 465456 [details] layman config
Created attachment 465458 [details] make.conf
emerge --info: Portage 2.3.3 (python 2.7.12-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-4.9.4, glibc-2.23-r3, 4.9.6-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.9.6-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3770K_CPU_@_3.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.3 KiB Mem: 16360784 total, 127216 free KiB Swap: 4194300 total, 4150540 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 04:30:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p48-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p48-r1::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.22.3_rc4::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.12::gentoo, 3.4.5::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.7.2::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.3::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.23.2::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r3::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.4::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r3::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.4::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.23-r3::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 bobwya location: /var/lib/layman/bobwya masters: gentoo priority: 50 cg location: /var/lib/layman/cg masters: gentoo priority: 50 dotnet location: /var/lib/layman/dotnet masters: gentoo priority: 50 jorgicio location: /var/lib/layman/jorgicio masters: gentoo priority: 50 soehest location: /var/lib/layman/soehest masters: gentoo priority: 50 steam-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/steam-overlay masters: gentoo priority: 50 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j7" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local 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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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx sse sse2 mmxext sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" 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OK, it looks like you have a faulty configuration as I suspected. (why I asked for all the configs) Your layman.cfg is set to use repos.conf style portage configs, so that is what layman is updating. But you did not remove the source /var/lib/layman line from /etc/portage/make.conf. So, as a result, portage is getting both config entries, and as a result, it still was told that the overlay you deleted was suppose to be there. Remove the source... line and you can even delete the /var/lib/layman/make.conf file after you confirm everything is operating correctly with only the /etc/portage/repos.conf/layman.conf file.
Thanks for getting back to me with details on what was going wrong and a proper fix for the problem. I'm relatively new to gentoo (only a few months now, vs the preceding 16 years in Debian land). When I was first trying to get overlays working, I think I may have muddled the instructions at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Overlays/Old_User_Guide (clearly marked as historical, but I guess I missed that) with https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay. It would be neat if layman could warn about the discrepancy -- my environment has basically been broken from the get-go and layman was happily adding to /var/lib/layman/make.conf in addition to the repos.conf area, but attempting to delete an overlay resulted in the odd behavior. IOW, it appears that when the legacy /var/lib/layman/make.conf exists, layman appears to register new overlays there in addition to the repos.conf/layman.conf file, but when removing, only the newer-style entry (repos.conf/layman.conf) is cleaned up, leading to the confusion of this (and the linked) user ): I guess it would be a nice-to-have -- it's not really a bug (: Thanks again for the advice.