Solved. I was missing the profiles/ dir in the build env. (a temp folder, which is wiped-clean before the build). Your reply gave me a lead. Thanks, Amit
Zac Medico wrote: > Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > >> Hi. >> In my overlay, I can have packages assigned to a private category, and >> have that category specified in profiles/categories, under the overlay >> itself. >> However, in-order to ebuild such a package I have to append the category >> to /etc/portage/categories, else I get an error message: >> >> !!! 'priv-cat/mypkg' has a category that is not listed in >> /etc/portage/categories >> >> Is that intended? >> > > No, but if works for me here (in profiles/categories, under the > overlay itself). So, I wonder what's different about your system. > Are you sure that you spelled the category correctly? > > You can get a list of valid categories like this: > > python -c 'import portage; print portage.settings.categories' > > Does your category show in that list? > > >> Amit >> >> > > >
