layman-1.1.1: Fixing --sync-all

The unicode support in layman broke the —sync-all option which I failed to test for the last release. Hence layman-1.1.1 has been released. One bug has been fixed:

• —sync-all broken (bug #192190)

Thanks to Mike Auty for providing the patch!

gentoo layman python

Posted at: 08:00 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

layman-1.1: Layman went to SourceForge

layman found a new home on SourceForge and I released version 1.1. This is mainly a bug fix release.

The new version adds unicode support, provides the —info action to receive details on a specific overlay and also adds a —nocolor option to remove color codes from the output. In addition the default for listing the overlays has been changed and layman will now show all overlays without using the -k option.

The detailed listing of issues that have been fixed:

• layman doesn't properly handle subdirectories that have been deleted in rsync overlays(bug #177045)
• the —overlays flag does not work as expected (bug #180107)
• layman —no-color (bug #183364)
• layman doesn't work with repositories containing non-ASCII characters in e. g. description (bug #184449)
• layman does not handle the -p option correctly (bug #185142)
• list individual overlays with description (bug #188000)
• document —verbose switch (bug #188004)

Thanks to all the people providing patches or sending suggestions for improving layman!

gentoo layman python

Posted at: 16:50 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo