layman-1.0.7 - Gentoo mit Frische-Garantie

With layman-1.0.6 being stable on x86 it is time to add the next version into the tree.

These are the changes:

• Contact information and description are now mandatory for overlay definitions (Bug #142164 and Bug #142165)
• Mercurial support, thanks to Samuel Tardieu (Bug #142092)
• Support for marking overlays as "official" (Bug #142166)
• Allowing whitespace in the overlay name (Ticket #39)
• Collecting notices to the end of laymans output (Ticket #40)
• Basic support for sorting overlays by priority (Ticket #21)
• Support for explicitly specifying the tar package format (Ticket #44)

The most notable change is the check for contact address and description for each overlay. While it makes sense to require this type of information layman cannot do much more than issue a warning and ignore the overlay in case this is missing in the global list (or any of your local additions for that matter). Layman will issue many such warnings and also present you a very short list of overlays since the global list has only been partially updated so far. This is even further reduced since layman now filters all overlays that are not hosted on overlays.gentoo.org if you do not use the -v flag while listing.

If you consider that behaviour annoying you may either use the -k flag or set nocheck: yes in the configuration file.

Please post any bugs layman-1.0.7 might have to our bugzilla database.

And last but not least both overlays.gentoo.org and layman will be featured in the next issue of the german linux magazine. The announcement is in the preview of the current mag: "Gentoo mit Frische-Garantie".

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