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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:

1. Unmask =app-portage/layman-1.2.4 if you’re on stable
2. sudo emerge -av =app-portage/layman-1.2.4
3. sudo etc-update  # To migrate /etc/layman/layman.cfg, very important

Btw report bugs please!

How we got here:

I bet a new Layman release isn’t really what you expected for today. A quick summary would be:

1. I requested SourceForge project admin access from Gunnar and happily received it,
2. applied my repositories.xml patch done earlier,
3. updated change logs,
4. fixed an unexpected last-minute showstopper (Layman hasn’t been handling CDATA sections before),
5. uploaded a tarball, and
6. and bumped the ebuild.

Help me with Layman!

If you know a little Python you are welcome to support Layman development!  These days my time is rather limited and there is a lot to do:

• Fixing Layman bugs
• Migrating from minidom to ElementTree
• Extending support for repositories.xml features like:
  • Multiple repository URLs
  • Overlay stability indicators
  • your favourite here

Sounds like fun? What are you waiting for?!

The Layman 1.2.4 released by Sebastian Pipping, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.