Bug 559122

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: --sync-submodule=profiles should sync metadata/layout.conf
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	esigra
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	240187, 549914

Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2015-08-29 19:45:59 UTC

The metadata/layout.conf file can be considered as an essential part of the profiles, since it can affect their interpretation via settings such as profile-formats. Therefore, it makes sense to sync this file when the profiles are synced.

This change will make --sync-submodule=profiles more useful for binhost clients, since it syncs the minimal amount of the tree necessary to have a working binhost client.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2015-08-29 20:10:07 UTC

There's a patch in the following branch:

https://github.com/zmedico/portage/tree/bug_559122

I've posted it for review here:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/9766ac2181607740c9ef637bcc05f2af

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2015-08-30 23:53:51 UTC

This is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=4a3f6ce8e5c64b7447bb32851ee91e19faf18be3

Comment 3 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-09-22 01:42:19 UTC

Released in portage-2.2.21