Hello!
Intro
For the gentoo-specific part of smolt [1] that's in the making we
collect stats on what package is installed and what overlay it comes
from. Which tree/overlay it came from is determined by reading file
/var/db/pkg/${CATEGORY}/${PF}/repository. The name in there comes
from file profiles/repo_name originally.
In smolt we match repo names from the 'repository' file against
overlay names from layman-global.txt to check if an overlay is known
worldwide or could be a secret overlay that we should not submit
information about.
Problem
When the name from repo_name and the overlay name in layman-global.txt
do not match smolt would assume the overlay is secret though it's not
and not be able to send in stats about it.
Examples:
oss-overlay != majeru
pro-audio != proaudio
Proposal
- Make repo_name file fit layman-global.txt entry where it doesn't
match at the moment
- People with that overlay installed do not have to change
anything, no "where did that overlay go" mails or aynthing
- Upstream needs to be convinced to fix it
- For packages installed from that overlay the file
'repository' will not update until the a re-installation
- Make in-sync repo_name a requirement for extending
layman-global.txt
Sebastian
