Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-portage/layman

[Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>]

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On 5/19/2023 1:51 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 7:07 PM Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Alexe Stefan <stefanalexe48@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Layman is still a convenient way of managing overlays. It still works
>>> as intended.
>>> Is there any way for it to be kept in the repos?
>>
>> Is there an issue for you with using eselect-repository, which is
>> actively maintained and doesn't depend on unmaintained software
>> (pyGPG and g-sorcery)?
> 
> Is anyone aware of an alternative for "layman -i repo_name"? I use
> that on occasion to find overlay maintainers when assigning bug
> reports.
> 
For repository owners, there's a simple way using xmllint (from the 
common libxml2 package):

xmllint --xpath "//repo[name='mysql']/owner" 
~/.cache/eselect-repo/repositories.xml


Trade out the name as necessary.  Needs a copy of repositories.xml 
locally which eselect-repository often caches. (Time is defined by 
REMOTE_LIST_REFRESH in /etc/eselect/repository.conf default of 2 hours.)

Brian


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