Bug 491426

Summary:	repos.conf is confusing name for directory
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Theo Chatzimichos (RETIRED) <tampakrap>
Component:	Conceptual/Abstract Ideas	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bkohler
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	484436

Description Theo Chatzimichos (RETIRED) archtester

2013-11-16 16:47:29 UTC

Please consider renaming it to something else, eg repos.conf.d or repos.d

Comment 1 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2013-11-16 16:50:06 UTC

It can be a flat file or dir, just like most of the rest of /etc/portage/

Comment 2 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-12-02 01:33:27 UTC

Ben is correct. It's the same as the package.{use,mask,unmask,keyword} scenario. However, it is (was) undocumented. Fix is in git.

Comment 3 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-12-02 02:09:26 UTC

Updated docs:

commit http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=69132988b8a9a865d3d46f2c8af1e3f5984c1fc9

Comment 4 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-01-06 00:41:56 UTC

Released in sys-apps/portage-2.2.8.