Now that the latest bugfixes have received a positive response it’s time to share them with a wider audience, i.e. with you: layman 1.3.1 out now. Thanks go to Dmitry Karasik and Jimmy Jazz.
Summary
layman-1.3.1 is a bugfix release: Adding/deleting/syncing overlays did not work in all cases.
Details
Fix handling of CVS overlays (bug #301689)
Fix handling of non-existing [...]
Time to collect bugfixes to 1.3.0_rc1 for a new release…
Summary
layman-1.3.0 fixes expected rough edges from 1.3.0_rc1. Thanks to everyone reporting bugs, i.e. thanks to Piotr Mitas, Albert W. Hopkins and tman/cornicx.
Details
Move storage default from /usr/local/portage/layman to /var/lib/layman (fixes bug #253725)
Syncing failed for overlays that no longer exist in the remote lists without need to (bug [...]
New features this time: here is Layman 1.3.0_rc1. Let me try to summarize:
Summary
layman-1.3.0_rc1 introduces support for several sources per overlay. Also, layman -i overlay now makes full use of metadata that arrived with the migration from layman-global.txt to the repositories.xml format.
Details
Add support for several sources per overlay (also fixes #280472)
When adding an overlay [...]
In spirit of release-early-and-without-reason: here is Layman 1.2.6. Let me try to summarize:
Summary
layman-1.2.6 introduces support for tar overlays that are compressed with an algorithm other than gzip or bzip2. That, plus minor fixes.
Details
Warn on lack of write permissions (fixes #260218)
Migrate to GNU tar’s compression format auto-detection which adds potential support for more types of compressed [...]
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If you have the impression your vote doesn’t matter – think again: With most selections there are candidates that you do not want to win. So in case you don’t have positive preferences choose anybody else. That decreases the chance of the others. Simple [...]
I was time to collect recent commits into a new release – here it is: Layman 1.2.5. This includes the code from teaming up with Christian Groschupp during 26C3. Let me try to summarize:
New features
Allow overriding of VCS commands
Allow running VCS from PATH (fixes #280539)
Bug fixes
Migrate XML handling from minidom to ElementTree (also fixes #261666)
Fix [...]
[Just a few bits, don't expect completeness here.]
We had that big blue banner (first presented on Linux Tag 2009) with us again: it did a great job on promoting our table and on easing up finding the way back. Neighborhood to the Debian table seemed to be peaceful to my impression, though we didn’t exchange [...]
Auf der außerordentlichen Mitgliederversammlung am 27.12.2009 ist ein neuer Vorstand gewählt worden; das Thema “Auflösung” ist damit vom Tisch.
What’s in for you with Layman 1.2.4:
Major bugfix affecting CVS-based overlays
Support for repositories.xml (successer to layman-global.txt)
The only visual indication of the arrival of repositories.xml support for now is that contacts now show names where available:
layman 1.2.3
* Contact : scaranospambeus@gentoo.org
layman 1.2.4
* Contact : Tomas Chvatal <scaranospambeus@gentoo.org>
More goodies will come.
How to upgrade:
Unmask =app-portage/layman-1.2.4 if you’re on stable
sudo [...]
In recent times of near-zero coding I took a break yesterday afternoon to write a patch for Asunder 1.9. I’m using Asunder for the moment because as Audex and KAudioCreator fail to handle my CD-ROM device correctly (without really telling why) for reasons I still need to uncover.
So Asunder turned out to work for me [...]
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