Adding a GitHub Overlay with layman -a

[koesherbacon]

Hello, I'm having some diffulty finding the answer to this question because all the keywords seem to be extremely common. If anyone knows of another similar thread please feel free to point me in that direction.

What I'd like to know is how to add a GitHub overlay? The overlay I'd like to add can be found here:
--> https://github.com/ssmike/overlay
Additionally, I'm trying to add this one because I cannot find any other overlays, official and non-official, that also have an .ebuild of Grub-Customizer:
--> https://github.com/ssmike/overlay/tree/ ... customizer

When I attempted to add it to my computer I'm shown this error message:

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$ sudo layman -a ssmike
 * Exception: Overlay "ssmike" does not exist.

I suppose there could be an overall problem with that github repo. I would also be happy if anyone also happens to know how I could install this GUI Grub configuration tool as well.

Thanks a lot!

[fedeliallalinea]

For adding custum repo with layman see here.
In your repo is missing file repositories.xml, you can or adding it directly in github or in /etc/layman/overlays/ (see link above)

[charles17]

Or try directly with

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[mike-overlay]
location = /usr/local/overlay/ssmike
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/ssmike/overlay
auto-sync = yes

Then, emaint sync -r mike-overlay

[Pums]

Hi. I'm new on gentoo and it's the first overlay I've added. I do think there is something wrong here (ssmike / ssmikes / mike ???)

I tried to follow viewtopic-t-1089516-start-0.html, but it did't work (or I did something bad).

I eventualy managed it, doing more or less the following (sure there're unnecessary steps ; I hope I don't forget an essential one because it's very confuse to me ; the only sure is the command lines that worked on the end and the final names, locations and contents of the files I give) :

/etc/layman/overlays/ssmike_overlay.xml :

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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<repositories version="1.0">
   <repo priority="50" quality="experimental" status="unofficial">
     <name>ssmikes-overlay</name>
     <description>Ssmike provides grub-customizer for Gentoo</description>
     <homepage>https://github.com/ssmike/overlay</homepage>
     <owner>
       <email></email>
     </owner>
     <source type="git">https://github.com/ssmike/overlay.git</source>
   </repo>
 </repositories>

I tried several "layman -o" commands unsuccessfully.

Finally :

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# layman -o file:///etc/layman/overlays/ssmike_overlay.xml -f -a ssmikes-overlay 

 * Fetching remote list...
 * Fetch Ok

 * Adding overlay...
 * Overlay "ssmikes-overlay" is not official. Continue installing? [y/n]: y
 * Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman  && /usr/bin/git clone https://github.com/ssmike/overlay.git /var/lib/layman/ssmikes-overlay )
Cloning into '/var/lib/layman/ssmikes-overlay'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 109, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (109/109), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (87/87), done.
remote: Total 935 (delta 26), reused 87 (delta 13), pack-reused 826
Receiving objects: 100% (935/935), 408.29 KiB | 1.49 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (265/265), done.
 * Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/ssmikes-overlay  && /usr/bin/git config user.name "layman" )
 * Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/ssmikes-overlay  && /usr/bin/git config user.email "layman@localhost" )
!!! Section 'ssmikes-overlay' in repos.conf has name different from repository name 'mike-overlay' set inside repository
 * Successfully added overlay(s) ssmikes-overlay

Ran

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# eix-update
# layman-updater -R

I had to edit manually /etc/portage/repos.conf/layman.conf because there wrere other incoherent names of the repository, but finally with :

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[mike-overlay]
priority = 50
location = /var/lib/layman/mike-overlay
layman-type = git
sync-type = laymansync
sync-uri = https://github.com/ssmike/overlay.git
auto-sync = Yes

in it, followed by another

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# eix-update

and

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# emerge -a app-admin/grub-customizer

worked...


Nevertheless,

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# grub-customizer 
 *** initializing (w/o specified bootloader type)…
   * reading partition info…
   * Loading Framebuffer resolutions (background process)
   * Finding out if this is a live CD
sh: hwinfo: command not found
 *** initializing (w/ specified bootloader type)…
   * Checking if the config directory is clean
 *** loading configuration
 *** loading - preserveConfig: no
   * unsetting saved config
 *** loading settings
 *** loading grub list
   * loading scripts…
   * loading proxies…
Segmentation fault

But it's another issue...

[Garbanzo]

eselect repository can also be used to manage overlays. See the 'Add unregistered repositories' section. I think it is easier to use than layman.

[Pums]

eselect repository can also be used to manage overlays. See the 'Add unregistered repositories' section. I think it is easier to use than layman.

It seems easier indeed. However, I tried (on another computer) :

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# eselect repository add ssmikes git https://github.com/ssmike/overlay.git
!!! Error: Can't load module repository
exiting

I intented to change the field "ssmikes" with ssmike / mike /smikes / mikes / ssmikes and others,but I still get the same error.

[Ionen]

Did you install it? The module comes from app-eselect/eselect-repository (see Installation section in aforementioned wiki link).

eselect-repository is essentially a wrapper to edit /etc/portage/repos.conf, and then portage handles things based on that configuration including sync'ing (layman used to be needed for this but that hasn't been the case in a while for most setups).

[Pums]

Did you install it? The module comes from app-eselect/eselect-repository (see Installation section in aforementioned wiki link).

I had probably not.

Now :

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# eselect repository enable mkeyoverlay https://bitbucket.org/mknjc/mkeyoverlay 
Adding mkeyoverlay to /etc/portage/repos.conf/eselect-repo.conf ...
error: https://bitbucket.org/mknjc/mkeyoverlay: repository not in repositories.xml
1 repositories enabled

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# emerge -a grub-customizer
!!! Section 'mkeyoverlay' in repos.conf has location attribute set to nonexistent directory: '/var/db/repos/mkeyoverlay'
!!! Section 'ssmikes' in repos.conf has location attribute set to nonexistent directory: '/var/db/repos/ssmikes'
WARNING: One or more repositories have missing repo_name entries:

        /var/db/repos/mkeyoverlay/profiles/repo_name
        /var/db/repos/ssmikes/profiles/repo_name

NOTE: Each repo_name entry should be a plain text file containing a
unique name for the repository on the first line.



These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "grub-customizer".

Here's my /etc/portage/repos.conf/eselect-repo.conf :

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# created by eselect-repo

[mkeyoverlay]
location = /var/db/repos/mkeyoverlay
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/mkeyoverlay.git

[ssmikes]
location = /var/db/repos/ssmikes
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/ssmike/overlay.git

A mess, isn't it?

[fedeliallalinea]

You can enable only overlay listed with eselect repository list, for add and external you should use add

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# eselect repository add mkeyoverlay git  https://bitbucket.org/mknjc/mkeyoverlay 

[Pums]

You can enable only overlay listed with eselect repository list, for add and external you should use add

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# eselect repository add mkeyoverlay git  https://bitbucket.org/mknjc/mkeyoverlay 

Ok, thanks! TI seems to work fine indeed.