From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QtrbC-0003E3-7O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:40:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8787B21C2CA; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:40:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACCE21C385 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:38:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj20 with SMTP id 20so754144gwj.40 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:38:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MvzSEaXGRDYbr1Vr04KzilJ+98pg/J7ZrsFGmDIN2uU=; b=oP15Aq5A3SIFYr2W9RtATxImxcqdeLYLc8ezDMZnxSmIi18zCH4wrXgcb86pm4OnxX KABmaQxvfng8qiKXzMUOFUgWNyULo1AFfTrNSdd2wQtbz4KIvhMMvWQ4Yn5yR+dT7o3a e4+mPYGUkt1LzCAzj+I0SxWGcIiMxMqTlUANQ= Received: by 10.101.189.35 with SMTP id r35mr150563anp.48.1313631500313; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.10.6] (c-68-32-248-84.hsd1.tn.comcast.net [68.32.248.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d7sm1393431anb.14.2011.08.17.18.38.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E4C6EFE.4050606@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:46:38 -0400 From: Valmor de Almeida User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110816 Lightning/1.0b3pre Lanikai/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to use layman --sync ALL across a firewall References: <4E4C0C58.9060408@binarywings.net> In-Reply-To: <4E4C0C58.9060408@binarywings.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: add5d4111974650a5a10142d7e763cb8 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