Bug 947628 – app-eselect/eselect-repository: doesn't handle "." correctly

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description Amit Ugol 2025-01-06 19:26:06 UTC]

Created repo 'pytorch-roc-6.3' results in this error:
!!! Section 'pytorch-roc-6.3' in repos.conf has name different from repository name 'pytorch-roc-6-3' set inside repository

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. eselect repository create pytorch-roc-6.3
2. sync
3.
Actual Results:  
!!! Section 'pytorch-roc-6.3' in repos.conf has name different from repository name 'pytorch-roc-6-3' set inside repository

Expected Results:  
pytorch-roc-6-3 should be pytorch-roc-6.3 (or limit certain chars?)

cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/eselect-repo.conf
.
.
.

[pytorch-roc-6.3]
location = /var/db/repos/pytorch-roc-6.3

;;;

cat /var/db/repos/pytorch-roc-6.3/profiles/repo_name
pytorch-roc-6.3

[Comment 1 Sam James 2025-01-06 19:27:48 UTC]

https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#section-3.1.5

[Comment 2 Sam James 2025-01-06 19:28:43 UTC]

I think we should emit some nice message but it's clearly not a reasonable repository name. It should be 'pytorch', 'local', 'amit' or something.