From dbc4f712fa892bb067996f45821f8d3aeda5e2fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Pipping Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:05:30 +0100 Subject: Prepare release of 1.2.5 (set release date, sync release notes, update website) --- CHANGES | 6 +++--- RELEASE_NOTES | 19 +++++++++---------- doc/layman.8.xml | 2 +- www/index.html | 22 +++++++++++----------- 4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index a211ce0..cda1e22 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ CHANGES ------- -TODO +Version 1.2.5 - Released 2010/01/04 =================================== - - Migrate XML handling from minidom to ElementTree (also fixes #261666) - - Allow overriding of VCS commands + - Migrate XML handling from minidom to ElementTree (also fixes #261666) + - Allow running VCS from PATH (fixes #280539) - Fix handling of Subversion overlays whose name contains diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES index 0058c45..e63be1f 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -1,27 +1,26 @@ -Version 1.2.4 - Released 2009/12/05 +Version 1.2.5 - Released 2010/01/04 =================================== FULL CHANGES ------------ - - Add option "-d" to calls of "cvs update" so it checks out new - directories properly (#278807) + - Allow overriding of VCS commands - - Fix reading of CDATA sections + - Migrate XML handling from minidom to ElementTree (also fixes #261666) - - Add support for repositories.xml database format + - Allow running VCS from PATH (fixes #280539) - - Substitute path "/usr/portage/local/layman" by "/usr/local/portage/layman" - in the documentation (#271457) + - Fix handling of Subversion overlays whose name contains + one or more '@' characters (#295018) - - Fix grammar errors in program output (#259188) + - Fix handling of non-ASCII characters (#286290) SHORT CHANGES ------------- - layman-1.2.4 comes with both new features as well as bug fixes, - most importantly a major bug affecting CVS-based overlays. + layman-1.2.5 introduces overriding of VCS commands to be used. + Besides that 1.2.5 is mostly a bugfix release. FRESHMEAT diff --git a/doc/layman.8.xml b/doc/layman.8.xml index 9d12f99..6ae2424 100644 --- a/doc/layman.8.xml +++ b/doc/layman.8.xml @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ layman - December 2009 + January 2010 layman 1.2.5 diff --git a/www/index.html b/www/index.html index 5750ef1..222f4a8 100644 --- a/www/index.html +++ b/www/index.html @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -layman

layman

Gunnar Wrobel


+layman

layman

Gunnar Wrobel


    
    
      http://gunnarwrobel.de
    
-   

Copyright © 2005-2009 Gunnar Wrobel

Table of Contents

Overview
External links
Reference
layman — +   

Copyright © 2005-2009 Gunnar Wrobel

Table of Contents

Overview
External links
Reference
layman — manage your local repository of Gentoo overlays -

Overview

  • +

Overview

External links

  • +

External links

Synopsis

layman [-a] | [--add] [ALL] | [overlay]

layman [-d] | [--delete] [ALL] | [overlay]

layman [-s] | [--sync] [ALL] | [overlay]

layman [-i] | [--info] [ALL] | [overlay]

layman [-S] | [--sync-all]

layman [-L] | [--list]

layman [-l] | [--list-local]

layman [-f] | [--fetch]

Description

layman is a script that allows you to add, remove and update Gentoo overlays from a variety of - sources.

WARNING

layman makes it easy to retrieve and + sources.

WARNING

layman makes it easy to retrieve and update overlays for Gentoo. In addition it makes it TRIVIAL to break your system.

The main portage tree provides you with high quality ebuilds @@ -266,9 +266,9 @@ darcs, git, mercurial or provided as tar packages. -

Overlay lists

Overlay list format

+

Overlay lists

Overlay list format

Layman uses a central list of overlays in XML format. The file looks like this: -

Example 1. An example overlays.xml file

+	    
Example 1. An example overlays.xml file
 	      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 	      <!DOCTYPE repositories SYSTEM "/dtd/repositories.dtd">
 	      <repositories xmlns="" version="1.0">
@@ -288,13 +288,13 @@
 	        </repo>
 	      </repositories>
 	      


-

Adding an overlay locally

+

Adding an overlay locally

Simply create an overlay list in the format described above and run layman with the -o switch. You need to prepend local file URLs with file://. -

Adding an overlay globally

+

Adding an overlay globally

The global list of overlays used by layman lies at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml. @@ -307,9 +307,9 @@ at . You can also join #gentoo-overlays on irc.freenode.net. -

Examples

Installing an overlay

layman -f -a wrobel

This would add the overlay with the id +

Examples

Installing an overlay

layman -f -a wrobel

This would add the overlay with the id wrobel to your list of installed - overlays.

Syncing your overlays

layman -s ALL

This updates all overlays

Performing several actions at the same time

layman -f -a wrobel -a webapps-experimental

This fetches the remote list and immediately adds two + overlays.

Syncing your overlays

layman -s ALL

This updates all overlays

Performing several actions at the same time

layman -f -a wrobel -a webapps-experimental

This fetches the remote list and immediately adds two overlays

Files

/etc/layman/layman.cfg

Configuration file, holding the defaults for layman

Reporting bugs

Please report bugs you might find at http://bugs.gentoo.org -- cgit v1.2.3-1-g7c22