maillog: 07/02/2005-03:41:20(-0500): Nicholas Jones types
> > - Will "emerge metadata" use information from PORTDIR_OVERLAY
> 
> No.
> 
> > - If yes, is there an "easy" way to (i.e. is there a tool that will)
> >   generate metadata for an overlay? 
> 
> emerge regen, will generate it in a subdir of /var/cache/edb/dep
> 
> > - What tools are used to generate the metadata for the official portage
> >   tree by the way?
> 
> emerge regen and rsync.

Thanks for the replies.

A follow-up to the latter two replies.

emerge regen doesn't seem to clean the metadata of packages that are no
longer there (I am talking about overlay packages). Does that mean that
I have to clean my /var/cache/edb/dep/OVERLAY in advance or have I
missed something?

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