the imlate fails with backtrace: ------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/imlate", line 479, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/imlate", line 473, in main pkgs = get_packages( conf ) File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/imlate", line 218, in get_packages if not is_herd(conf["HERD"], join(conf["PORTDIR"], cp, "metadata.xml")): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/imlate", line 180, in is_herd data = _get_metadata(metadata, "pkgmetadata", "herd") File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/imlate", line 119, in _get_metadata metadatadom = minidom.parse(metadata) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1918, in parse return expatbuilder.parse(file) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 922, in parse fp = open(file, 'rb') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/var/portage/tree/eclass/ELT-patches/metadata.xml' ------------------------------------- The removing of "eclass/ELT-patches" and "eclass/tests" subdirs workarounds this. I sync tree from "rsync://rsync.ru.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"; The same as for git tree from github. Reproducible: Always