When running update-eix with the OVERLAY_CACHE_METHOD set to either assign:<path> or flat:<path>, eix appends the contents of that variable to the contents for the previous repository. This results in an incorrect database, as the repositories other than the main gentoo-x86 repository will not be added. This does not occur when the OVERLAY_CACHE_METHOD is any variant of parse or ebuild. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set OVERLAY_CACHE_METHOD to flat:<path> or assign:<path> 2. Run update-eix Output of update-eix: Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. [0] "gentoo" /var/paludis/repositories/gentoo/ (cache: metadata-assign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/gentoo) Reading 100% [1] "local" /var/paludis/repositories/local (cache: metadata-assign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/gentooassign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/) Reading 100% [2] "akoya" /var/paludis/repositories/akoya (cache: metadata-assign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/gentooassign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/assign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/) Reading 100% [3] "arcon" /var/paludis/repositories/arcon (cache: metadata-assign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/gentooassign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/assign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/assign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/) Reading 100% [4] "armagetron" /var/paludis/repositories/armagetron (cache: metadata-assign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/gentooassign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/assign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/assign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/assign:/var/cache/paludis/metadata/) emerge --info: WARNING: repository at 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Please specify the version (or all) of app-portage/eix in the Summary.
There are two problems involved: One is the printed output of update-eix: update-eix does mistakenly not clear the string. This is now fixed in eix' svn trunk (>=eix-0.14.1). However, this concorns only the _printed_ output, update-eix uses internally the correct data (the correct output is the last part of the string). So the other problem seems to be that no data is found in your case. Are you sure that you want cache method "assign: and not "metadata-assign:"? Note that the former means that the data is expected in e.g. /var/cache/paludis/metadata/var/paludis/repositories/local for your overlay [1] (i.e. the overlay path is appended to the path which you pass after "assign:"). Also, are you sure that paludis uses the "assign" format and not the "flat" format for the overlay data?
I'm pretty sure that I want assign:*, as my directory structure is this: /var/cache/paludis/metadata: gentoo local ...etc... and the contents of the files is like so: SLOT=0 SRC_URI=mirror://berlios/krypt/krypt-0.2.tar.bz2 HOMEPAGE=http://krypt.berlios.de/ LICENSE=GPL-2 DESCRIPTION=A tool to mount LUKS-encrypted volumes via HAL in KDE KEYWORDS=~amd64 ~x86 IUSE=arts debug elibc_FreeBSD xinerama EAPI=0
Waitaminute, on re-reading your post, I just now really noticed the 'the overlay path is appended to the path which you pass after "assign:"' bit. That would do it. Would metadata-assign:* append the repo_name to the path passed to it? If not, I'll need to do a separate entry in OVERRIDE_CACHE_METHOD for each overlay, which is likely to be a pain.
(In reply to comment #4) > Would metadata-assign:* append the repo_name to the path passed to it? No; repo_name is not supposed to act as part of a path (I am not even sure whether it is specified that it must not contain filename invalid symbols like "/"). You must specify [OVERRIDE_]CACHE_METHOD for each overlay separately (or by using corresponding commandline arguments). Another way - for all overlays in /var/paludis/repositories/X for which the corresponding data is stored in /var/cache/paludis/metadata/X - you can also do mkdir -p /some_directoy/var/paludis ln -s /var/cache/paludis/metadata /some_directory/var/paludis/repositories and then use "assign:/some_directory" for these overlays.
Hm. Since one of the stated use-cases of flat:* is "if you are using paludis to generate the metadata in the corresponding directory.", it may be worth stating exactly how paludis generates metadata. In the paludis repo config file, I have the line write_cache = /var/cache/paludis/metadata Paludis uses this line to specify where the metadata is generated, but not in the way that flat:* seems to assume. Rather, it generates the metadata for each repository in ${write_cache}/${repo_name}/ So, eix's flat:* and assign:* caches are essentially useless with paludis, one of the stated use cases, in almost all situations - the only situation where it will work is when write_cache = /var/cache/paludis/metadata/var/paludis/repositories/ AND the repo_name is the same as the name of the directory which that specific repository is stored in. It is worth noting that there are several (at least 16, maybe more) repositories in layman whose layman names (and therefore the names of the layman-created directories they are in) are different than their repo_name file indicates.
It is possible to configure use CACHE_METHOD so that the correct paths are read also with paludis. I do not agree that eix should automatically use paludis broken method to form paths.
Actually, it's Paludis which is more closely adhering to the open specifications agreed upon by the Council. The Council ratified the Package Manager Specification, which defines [1] the repo_name file as containing the unique repository id. Also, glep 42 [2] requires a unique repository ID (even for overlays), which was agreed to be the repo_name file when it was ratified. Even portage itself complains if a repository is missing a repo_name file - therefore, it hews closer to the specification to use the repo_name, which is required by the specification to be a unique identifier. [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~yngwin/pms/pms.html#x1-330003.4 [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0042.html#required-portage-enhancements
Fact is that many overlays (even some layman ones, but private overlays probably many more) have no repo_name, and there is no way to guarantee world-wide name uniqueness, so collissions with all their problems are just a question of time. Since no name was the only way in so-to-speak "EAPI=0"-overlay, I think that it is not acceptable that basic functionality suddenly ceases to work (it is a different story about new additional features or a better display or perhaps printing a small warning). Anyway, to stop paludis users from whining, I have implemented yesterday night (I just couldn't report since I couldn't reach bugs.gentoo.org for some hours) a new repo-assign/repo-flat method which appends "/${repo_name}". Problems with missing repo_name's or double names have to be solved manually on a CACHE_METHOD basis, of course.
I forgot to ask: Maybe paludis has some policy of dealing with missing/colliding repo_names, e.g. calling them "unnamed%d" or "name%d"? Since the new method is paludis-specific anyway, eix might perhaps use the same policy...
Paludis's solution to repositories missing repo-names is to call them "x-${directory}" where directory is the name (not the path) of the directory the repository is in. Examples: A repository in /var/paludis/repositories/foobar has a repo_name file that says "barfoo". Paludis calls the repository "barfoo". A repository in /var/paludis/repositories/wibble has no repo_name file. Paludis calls the repository "x-wibble".
Thanks. The corresponding cache method repo-assign:* is now available in eix' svn trunk.
Thank _you_ - you've been extremely helpful and prompt. I'll probably be switching to SVN now. Much luck!
