On Tue, 07 May 2019 13:05:59 +0200
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm struggling with layman. Using version 2.4.2-r1 as well as version
> I get
> for several overlays like for palemoon :
>
> layman -a palemoon
>
> * Adding overlay...
> * Overlay "palemoon" is not official. Continue installing? [y/n]: y
>
> * CLI: Errors occurred processing action add
> * Exception caught installing repository "palemoon":
> * unterminated character set at position 1
>
> So, what does this error message really mean.
> What file is involved and how to fix this?
>
> Many thanks for a hint,
> Helmut
>
It looks like bug #676074[1]
I've found a suitable workaround of looking at the versions of python
I'm building layman for, and explicitly telling it to use a version of
Python other than 3.7 to run layman.
katipo2 ~ # EPYTHON=python3.7 layman -a pentoo
* Adding overlay...
* CLI: Errors occurred processing action add
* Exception caught installing repository "pentoo":
* unterminated character set at position 1
katipo2 ~ # EPYTHON=python3.6 layman -a pentoo
* Adding overlay...
* Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman && /usr/bin/git clone
https://github.com/pentoo/pentoo-overlay.git /var/lib/layman/pentoo )
* Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/pentoo && /usr/bin/git config
user.name "layman" )
* Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/pentoo && /usr/bin/git config
user.email "layman@localhost" )
* Successfully added overlay(s) pentoo.
1: https://bugs.gentoo.org/676074
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