Bug 815814

Summary:	egencache doesn't respect /etc/portage/categories
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Michael <voron1>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael 2021-10-02 08:33:53 UTC

If you set up crossdev, it adds a category, for examle cross-avr/, and adds it to /etc/portage/categories. Then if you try to `egencache --repo=local --update cross-avr/binutils --update-use-local-desc --verbose` you get this:

!!! 'cross-avr/binutils' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories
No ebuilds or cache entries found for 'cross-avr/binutils'

And no metadata gets generated for the category. Moreover, if you don't speicify the [ATOM] for --update, egencache skips it with no error message, which makes troubleshooting tricky. 

Adding `cross-avr` to ::local/profiles/categories satisfies egencache and metadata gets generated.