[gentoo-user] Re: layman printer trouble

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:

> 
> Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen <at> fu-berlin.de> writes:
> 
> > Sounds fine up to here. Make sure you have a line "source
> > /var/lib/layman/make.conf" inside your make.conf and try to emerge the
> > driver. It should work then.
> 
> Something is wrong.
> 
> What I have:
> cat /etc/make.conf
> <snip>
> 
> LAYMAN
actually is "##LAYMAN"
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
> source /var/lib/layman/make.conf
> 
> SO should this  be (?):
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman"
> 
> cat /var/lib/layman/make.conf:
> ##PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
> 
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="$PORTDIR_OVERLAY"
> 
> Here is what I get:
> 
> # layman -a printer-drivers
> * Failed to add overlay "printer-drivers".
> * Error was: Overlay "printer-drivers" already in the local list!
> 
> # ls /var/lib/layman/      
> cache_ac494f50f5736be7871962c0dec7b3bb.xml  make.conf.old.layman  
> printer-drivers  make.conf  overlays.xml          zugaina

ls -r /var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/


Documentation  licenses  metadata  net-print  profiles  skel.metadata.xml

/var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/Documentation:
README.txt  bug-snippet.txt

/var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/licenses:
Brother

/var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/metadata:
layout.conf

/var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/net-print:
brother-mfc6490cw-cups  brother-mfc6490cw-lpr  min12xxw

/var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/net-print/brother-mfc6490cw-cups:
Manifest  brother-mfc6490cw-cups-1.1.2_p2.ebuild  metadata.xml

/var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/net-print/brother-mfc6490cw-lpr:
Manifest  brother-mfc6490cw-lpr-1.1.2_p2.ebuild  metadata.xml

/var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/net-print/min12xxw:
Manifest  metadata.xml  min12xxw-0.0.9-r2.ebuild

/var/lib/layman/printer-drivers/profiles:
eapi  repo_name


> ls -R /usr/local/portage/net-print
> 
> brother-mfc6490cw-cups  brother-mfc6490cw-lpr
> 
> ./brother-mfc6490cw-cups:
> Manifest  brother-mfc6490cw-cups-1.1.2_p2.ebuild
> 
> ./brother-mfc6490cw-lpr:
> brother-mfc6490cw-lpr-1.1.2_p2.ebuild
> 
> # eix printer-driver
> No matches found.
> 
> # emerge -pv printer-drivers
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "printer-drivers".
> 
> Obviously I've got something wrong.....(following too many guides).

Suggestions? Including starting over and following a step
by step howto?


James