Bug 512316 – layman feature requests

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michael Lawrence 2014-06-03 20:06:43 UTC]

add the ability to "forget" a repo

layman -d however it will temporally comment out a repo 
However deleting the repo re-syncing it kinda a pain.... esp on laptop and sometimes if at a crappy free-wifi locale connection is ....not good and may take quite some time to re-sync/eix etc. ftp http or imap work great but voip or rsync etc sometimes is deliberately sandbagged... 
@ home wifi is 1gig local +10-45 megs.... 
and esp if src's are already downloaded to distfiles, .... and mainly the ebuild files are the main difference... 

just if emerging a few packages while i grab lunch @ work... yeah the free wifi @ coffeehouse or etc is often weak. 

then tell it to "remember" a repo 

ie 

emerge foo , wich foo:pentoo :sunrise :funtoo-flora , 

Ka'blooey error fatal.... etc. insert nagging circular epic fail reasons here.... 

layman -Fg sunrise,funtoo-flora 

"Ok I'll pretend their 'not hear' for a bit, commenting (%reponame)% out of layman make file..." 

however it will still -S (sync) them..... 

laymany -??"rember option" repo name , simply UN-comments(%reponame)% make.conf file in layman...

other wish list item is layman -a  repo1,2,3,4,5
it adds then nicely but it would be nice to use commas to loop it ,N times and do the adds instead of layman -a reponame , again and again..... 


this isn't critical , 

however they are more Creature comforts for mobile users..
(or shitty internet ie have travel jobs with /puke wifi in hotels 1 meg at best...) 
and or like the layman -a 1,2,3,4 an upgrade creature comfort to add a few repos in one shot.

[Comment 1 Devan Franchini (RETIRED) 2014-06-03 23:16:53 UTC]

I'll try and tackle this bug towards the end of my GSoC.

[Comment 2 Devan Franchini (RETIRED) 2014-09-29 13:49:42 UTC]

Available in layman-2.2.0, closing as fixed.