On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
It is a legacy assumption that we had prior to the introduction of the 'virtual' category into gentoo-x86. > > 10x, > Amit > > > >
