[gentoo-user] layman : unterminated character set at position 1

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,
I'm struggling with layman. Using version 2.4.2-r1 as well as version
9999 I get
for several overlays like for palemoon :

layman -a palemoon

* Adding overlay...
* Overlay "palemoon" is not official. Continue installing? [y/n]: y

* CLI: Errors occurred processing action add
* Exception caught installing repository "palemoon":
* unterminated character set at position 1

So, what does this error message really mean.
What file is involved and how to fix this?

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut

[Kent Fredric]

It looks like bug #676074[1]

I've found a suitable workaround of looking at the versions of python
I'm building layman for, and explicitly telling it to use a version of
Python other than 3.7 to run layman.


katipo2 ~ # EPYTHON=python3.7 layman -a pentoo

* Adding overlay...

* CLI: Errors occurred processing action add

* Exception caught installing repository "pentoo":

* unterminated character set at position 1

katipo2 ~ # EPYTHON=python3.6 layman -a pentoo

* Adding overlay...
* Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman && /usr/bin/git clone https://github.com/pentoo/pentoo-overlay.git /var/lib/layman/pentoo )
* Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/pentoo && /usr/bin/git config user.name "layman" )
* Running Git... # ( cd /var/lib/layman/pentoo && /usr/bin/git config user.email "layman@localhost" )
* Successfully added overlay(s) pentoo.


1: https://bugs.gentoo.org/676074