Am 17.08.2011 18:27, schrieb Valmor de Almeida:
> Hello,
> 
> At work, I typically use  emerge-webrsync  to sync the portage tree.
> But I don't know how to sync the layman tree.
> This
> 
>   layman --sync ALL
> 
> does not work. I guess because git pull does not work across the
> firewall. Is there a solution to this besides requesting a firewall
> exception?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Valmor
> 

Well, at least some overlays support fetching via http. `layman -L`
shows all available URLs for fetching. In /etc/layman/layman.cfg, you
can also specify a proxy. In theory, that should allow you to fetch all
these overlays.

The remaining problem is: How do you tell layman to prefer the http
connection over the native protocol? I haven't found such an option.
Maybe you have to try it out yourself or open a bug for a feature request.

Worst case: create your own overlay list which only contains the http
connections. The documentation shows how to do this.

Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp