>
> I just checked the internal overlays team guide[1] and it does
> explicitly say that repo_name should match the repositories.xml <name>.

Oh, great news then. Thanks for checking. Also thank you overlays team!

That being said it is possible for the
> owner to change repo_name and (accidentally) not update
> repositories.xml. These cases should be fixed but exactly how would have
> to be determined on a case by case basis.
>
That is true, however I think those are "edge" cases. Furthermore, how
often do
people change their overlay's name? I legitimately do not know.

In any case, this is just something to keep in mind when writing this
> check. It is not fully guaranteed that eselect repository can find the
> repository that is requested in some master= entry.
>
Great point.
Btw, in your opinion, do you think having this emerge --sync + eselect
repository feature is doable?

Best regards,
- Tomas Fabrizio Orsi


El mié, 21 jun 2023 a las 10:58, Andrew Ammerlaan (<
andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>) escribió:

> On 21/06/2023 15:40, TOMAS FABRIZIO ORSI wrote:
> >     What I meant is that emerge --sync/eix --sync does this check
> >     instead of
> >     eselect repository. To me this makes sense since we can only do this
> >     check *after* syncing.
> >
> > That is a great point; I had not considered it.
> > So, you are saying to have emerge --sync/eix --sync check the masters
> > key and then warn the user of not synced up overlays, correct?
>
> Yes
>
> >     This however would require
> >     that profiles/repo_name is always equal to the name entry in
> >     repositories.xml, I'm not sure if this is currently always the case.
> >
> > I had not considered this possibility either.
> > If that's the case, then I believe there are to possible behaviors:
> > If the names do match, then emerge --sync/eix --sync could both:
> >       1. issue a warning of the missing overlay dependency
> >       2. run the command to add said overlay (with confirmation).
> > On the other hand, if the names do not match, a missing dependency
> warning
> > could be issued, skipping the second step.
> > This sounds to me to be fairly reasonable behaviour.
> >
> > In the cases where the names do not match; what could be the best
> > solution to "fix" this? Change repositories.xml on a case by case basis?
> > Ask overlay owners to change their profiles/repo_name and
> > profiles/masters key? Neither?
>
> I just checked the internal overlays team guide[1] and it does
> explicitly say that repo_name should match the repositories.xml <name>.
> So probably there is no problem. That being said it is possible for the
> owner to change repo_name and (accidentally) not update
> repositories.xml. These cases should be fixed but exactly how would have
> to be determined on a case by case basis.
>
> In any case, this is just something to keep in mind when writing this
> check. It is not fully guaranteed that eselect repository can find the
> repository that is requested in some master= entry.
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew
>
> [1]
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Overlays/Internal_Overlays_team_guide
>
>
>