On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:50 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/07/2016 22:07, konsolebox wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3:18 AM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks, that led me to sync the kde-sunset overlay. However, I think I
>>> am missing a step as when I use emerge or eshowkw it doesn't seem to
>>> show anything from the kde-sunset overlay. layman usually handled this
>>> stuff, any pointers?
>>>
>>
>> Well, that was the only thing I had to do to make it work.
>>
>> Did you check if the files were properly downloaded after running
>> `emerge --sync`? E.g. check if /var/local/overlays/kde-sunset/*
>> exist? How do you know that nothing is shown from there. What
>> command do you use? Do you have any custom package masks that would
>> not make the packages show perhaps? Also, how did you add the
>> repos.conf file for kde-sunset? I presumed that you know that
>> /etc/portage/repos.conf should be a directory. Did you perhaps only
>> added a single repos.conf file?
>>
>> # cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/{gentoo.conf,kde-sunset.conf,local.conf}
>> [gentoo]
>> location = /var/lib/gentoo/portage
>> sync-type = git
>> sync-uri = git://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git
>> sync-git-pull-extra-opts = -f
>> auto-sync = yes
>> [kde-sunset]
>> auto-sync = yes
>> location = /var/local/overlays/kde-sunset
>> masters = gentoo
>> sync-type = git
>> sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/kde-sunset.git
>> [local]
>> masters = gentoo
>> priority = 10
>> location = /var/local/portage
>>
>> If it still doesn't work, maybe there's an old configuration line in
>> your `make.conf` that should no longer be there. Or maybe you're
>> using an old sys-apps/portage, or some other tools that make it change
>> its behavior. Although both are unlikely.
>>
>> Another note: At least with portage-2.3.0, you should see "=== Sync
>> completed for kde-sunset" after running `emerge --sync`.
>>
>
> There was an old deprecated *OVERLAY setting in make.conf that must be
> removed when using the new repos.conf
Indeed, but I'm still doubting that it has something to do with
packages from kde-sunset not appearing with emerge, granting he was
already able to do `emerge --sync` properly as what he said.
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konsolebox
