On 5/19/2023 1:51 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 7:07 PM Sam James wrote: >> >> >> Alexe Stefan 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