===== FAQs =====

==== Portage and Overlays ====

Q: Why aren't you setting this Packages to RESTRICT="fetch"?

A: At the moment i am building the iManager packages for this Overlay. The iManager system works with plugins. You will have to download them plugin for plugin. There are about 20 or more of them.

Q.  I am getting errors downloading the files from novell.com.  What am I doing wrong?  
<code>
 >>> Downloading 'http://:@cache.novell.com/prot/2JyMn7sWP_Q~/novell-client-1.2-SLE10.tar.gz' 
 http://:@cache.novell.com/prot/2JyMn7sWP_Q~/novell-client-1.2-SLE10.tar.gz: Wrong Username. 
 !!! Couldn't download 'novell-client-1.2-SLE10.tar.gz'. Aborting.
</code>


A.  Some Novell binaries require that you register at Novell 

<code>
    https://secure-www.novell.com/selfreg/jsp/createAccount.jsp
</code>


You should add the user/pass to your /etc/portage/novell.acc

<code>
  NOVELL_ACCOUNT_USERNAME="balduin" <<<--- add your username here 
  NOVELL_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD="derfisch" <<<--- add your password here 
</code>

  
Or add your fetch manually 
<code>
 http://user:pass@cache.novell.com/prot/2JyMn7sWP_Q~77/novell-client-1.2-SLE10.tar.gz
</code>

where the url is taken from the error message above




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