But portage does, or at least the tree serving code infra uses does. This means that repoman lets you commit metadata.xml files that will stop the generation of the tree for rsync access, and that's not good. Brian and Jeremy can probably explain this better than me.
(In reply to comment #0) > But portage does, or at least the tree serving code infra uses does. Well, not any special code, just egencache. > > This means that repoman lets you commit metadata.xml files that will stop > the generation of the tree for rsync access, and that's not good. > > Brian and Jeremy can probably explain this better than me.
This is fixed in git: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=118db4184de67450ec7118f1607b3f8c8ed1ec9e
This is fixed in 2.1.11.32 and 2.2.0_alpha143.