layman-1.0.99: Supporting authenticated proxies

Another layman version with additional fixes went into the portage tree:

• Support for overlay lists over https (bug #163659)
• Fixed man page (bug #164746)
• Extended proxy support (authenticated proxies, respect http_proxy, bugs #150741, #167686, #168010)
• Removed the subversion dependency (bug #168203)
• Fixed exit codes (bug #171835)

The new version adds support for authenticated proxies which was the last feature on my list concerning layman. If there are no bugs being reported during the next weeks I'll mark this as layman-1.1 which I'll then consider feature complete. The package will be maintained until its functionality will be provided by portage or a potential portage successor.

Thanks to all the people providing patches or sending suggestions for improving layman!

gentoo layman python

Posted at: 21:44 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo