What happened to the portage GUIs? [Solved]

[tekwyzrd]

Portato is gone, himerge is gone... the only portage gui I can find for x86_64 is porthole. Adding to this is the annoying fact that some malfunction is preventing me from adding ANY overlays. All attempts end the same. My install is completely up-to-date

as root:

layman -d sabayon

* Deleting selected overlays,...
* Repository 'sabayon' was not installed

* CLI: Errors occured processing action delete
* Repository 'sabayon' was not installed

layman -a sabayon

* Adding overlay,...
* Adding repository "sabayon" failed!

* CLI: Errors occured processing action add
* Adding repository "sabayon" failed!

[sabayonino]

install dev-vcs/git to work with Sabayon Overlay

[tekwyzrd]

install dev-vcs/git to work with Sabayon Overlay

Thanks. I never had to manually add git before (x86). Unfortunately my old athlon 2600+ computer died forcing me to throw together something to use for now. This dual irwindale xeon setup is my first install and use of sabayon x86_64.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Kuroo 4 is in the gentoo-guis overlay and is reportedly quite stable:

What happened with Kuroo?

Kuroo 4...

[tekwyzrd]

@Fitzcarraldo

Thanks - I forgot about kuroo.

[Fitzcarraldo]

On a separate note, having seen your first post, don't forget that the old monolithic Sabayon overlay was split into two overlays: sabayon and sabayon-distro. So you need to add both of them if you want to use Portage with SL: Sabayon Linux developers split the Portage sabayon overlay into two new overlays

[tekwyzrd]

Thanks. I was wondering about the presence of sabayon and sabayon-distro overlays in the list but hadn't investigated it yet. Might be worth addition to the layman section of the portage how-to.

[albfneto]

If you plain to use both Portage and Entropy, remember to edit the file: /etc/entropy/client.conf, and in the line:
about "ignore pseudo downgrades", change "disable" to "enable".

This is in order to avoid that Entropy (equo, rigo) propose downgrades aa upgrades.

[eris23]

I don't see "ignore pseudo downgrades". I do see "ignore-spm-downgrades". Are these the same?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Yes, it's a mistake by albfneto. The correct syntax is "ignore-spm-downgrades = <parameter>".

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# Ignore SPM (Portage) pseudo-downgrades
# USE AT YOUR OWN RISK, IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S THIS OPTION
# !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!        SKIP IT       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!        SKIP IT       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!        SKIP IT       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!        SKIP IT       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# This option permits to skip packages with Entropy revision 9999
# from being treaten as downgrades. This usually happens when
# migrating from Portage to Entropy
# Valid parameters: disable, enable, true, false, disabled, enabled, 0, 1
# Default parameter if unset: disable
ignore-spm-downgrades = disable