I have a overlay hosted @ github referenced in URL, that I personally use but for some different reasons do not want added to the overlays list. Now previously "layman -o $URL -a" has worked for the lik mentioned, but at least since I upgraded to layman-2.0.0_rc* I have gotten troubles: # layman -f -o $URL * Fetching remote list,... Failed to fetch overlay list! Original Error was: 'last-modified' * Download failed. * Error was: Failed to fetch overlay list! * Original Error was: 'last-modified' When I take a closer look at the HTTP-header for this file it comes apparent that raw.github.org does not even announce "last-modified". So I think that may be what fails? The official repo-list fetches fine, however the getoo server announces last-modified in its server response. Portage 2.2.0_alpha47 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.13-r4, 2.6.39-hardened-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39-hardened-r7-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:45:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.5 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p10 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2, 3.2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.5 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.38 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo gamerlay-stable x11 Mine Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" 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Yes, I recently added that check to reduce bandwidth usage since it fetched the list for nearly every operation. I'll work on a solution. Thanks for the link for me to test it with.
fixed in commit b08a5e4b34e0258e84714bcef16c1d5d09c71b39. so is available now in layman-9999 and will be in rc2. I was also thinking, that a modified -o option could install the overlay definition instead to /etc/layman.overlays/overlay-name.xml. That could take advantage of the new overlay definitions plug-in directory that can be used for non-list static lists and definitions. If the list is not static then putting an entry in layman.cfg is best so it can be updated regularly.
Fixed and released in >=layman-2.0.0_rc2.
