[gentoo-user] how to use layman --sync ALL across a firewall

[gentoo-user] how to use layman --sync ALL across a firewall

[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,

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Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use layman --sync ALL across a firewall

[Florian Philipp]

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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


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Re: [gentoo-user] how to use layman --sync ALL across a firewall

[Valmor de Almeida]

On 08/17/2011 02:45 PM, Florian Philipp wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks for the inputs.

--
Valmor