On Wed, Sep 21 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> Has something happened to the gnome overlay. >> >> It seems to exist >> >> oldlap ~ # layman -L | grep gnome >> * gnome [Git ] (git://git.o.g.o/proj/gnome.git, >> h...) >> * gnome-live [Git ] >> (git://git.o.g.o/proj/gnome-live.g...) >> >> But it seems to not exist >> >> oldlap ~ # layman -s gnome >> >> * Fetching remote list,... >> * Remote list already up to date: >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml >> * Last-modified: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:30:15 GMT >> * Fetch Ok >> >> * Syncing selected overlays,... >> * >> * Errors: >> * ------ >> * Failed to select overlay "gnome". >> * Error was: Exception: Overlay "gnome" does not exist. > > I have not used that overlay, and don't know what's happening, but in > general when the overlay address changes, you need to delete and > re-add the overlay. So I always try that if I get a strange error like > you're getting.
Thanks for the tip but that seems to cause even more strange behavior. Deleting says it is not there; adding says it is already there. allan oldlap ~ # layman -d gnome * Deleting selected overlays,... * Repository 'gnome' was not installed oldlap ~ # layman -a gnome * Adding overlay,... * Running Git... # /usr/bin/git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/gnome.git /var/lib/layman/gnome fatal: destination path '/var/lib/layman/gnome' already exists and is not an empty directory. * Failure result returned from Git