[gentoo-portage-dev] qfile assumes category names contain a hyphen

[Amit Dor-Shifer]

Hi all.

While working on my overlay, I stumbled on an issue where qfile refused 
to acknowledge an installed file as being part of my package.

Looking into q's implementation (portage-utils-0.1.29), I see:

amit0 portage-utils-0.1.29 # grep -A 2 next_entry ./libq/vdb_get_next_dir.c
next_entry:
       ret = readdir(dir);
       if (ret == NULL) {
--
               goto next_entry;
       if (strchr(ret->d_name, '-') == NULL)
               if ((strcmp(ret->d_name, "virtual")) != 0)
                       goto next_entry;

I encountered this since I used a new category, which only contained a 
single word. Adding a hyphen and a 2nd token solved my issue, and now 
qfile knows the file's association.

Is this assumption, that category should be "stringA-stringB" documented 
somewhere?

10x,
Amit