I have a site-wide rsynced default profile in /etc/portage/profile that also contains a local overlay which is activated by specifying PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/portage/profile/make.defaults. Neither stable app-portage/eix-0.20.5 nor unstable 0.22.2 will find it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. specify an overlay in /etc/portage/profile/make.defaults 2. eix-update Actual Results: eix only finds /usr/portage and anything given in /etc/make.conf or files sourced from there. This causes a nasty inconsistency between portage's and eix's view of the available overlays. The workaround is trivial: specify the overlay in /etc/make.conf. That just somewhat defeats the comfort of our default site profile with included overlay and minimized make.conf customization. Expected Results: eix should honor the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable from the profile as does portage. Portage 2.2_rc89 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.35-gentoo-r4-jmb i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.35-gentoo-r4-jmb-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=3.0" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j -l3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/etc/portage/profile/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 jpeg kerberos ldap lzma mmx modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection sasl session smp snmp sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd threads unicode vim-syntax x86 xattr xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is not reasonably possible to fix in eix: Overlays specified in PORTDIR_OVERLAY could again contain make.defaults etc, so honoring this variable in a reasonable way is not possible without restarting a (possibly infinite) recursive reading. In contrast to portage, eix also needs a concept of "local settings" and "nonlocal settings" (e.g. to make eix-test-obsolete behave reasonable); there are just difference between portage and eix which cannot be changed.
