Repository 'x-portage' is missing masters attribute in /opt

[midway]

received the master set-up error after the update this morning. The file in the path doesn't exist however.

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~ # emerge --sync
WARNING: One or more repositories have missing repo_name entries:

        /opt/portage/profiles/repo_name

NOTE: Each repo_name entry should be a plain text file containing a
unique name for the repository on the first line.

>>> Synchronization of repository 'gentoo' located in '/usr/portage'...
>>> Starting rsync with rsync://88.191.100.68/gentoo-portage...
>>> Checking server timestamp ...
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Number of files: 175091
Number of files transferred: 16
Total file size: 308.61M bytes
Total transferred file size: 624.91K bytes
Literal data: 624.91K bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 4.37M
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 25.61K
Total bytes received: 4.66M

sent 25.61K bytes  received 4.66M bytes  240.49K bytes/sec
total size is 308.61M  speedup is 65.81
!!! Repository 'x-portage' is missing masters attribute in '/opt/portage/metadata/layout.conf'
!!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in this file for future compatibility

I do have /usr/portage/metadata/layout.conf though which reads:

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# This went live Wednesday, July 4, 2012 at 10:00 UTC
# For more details, please see: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_00000.xml
# and/or GLEP 59.
manifest-hashes = SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL

# Bug #470670 - gentoo's council says to deprecate
# EAPIs 1 and 2.
eapis-deprecated = 1 2

# Bug #337853 - gentoo's council says to enable
# --echangelog by default for the "gentoo" repo
update-changelog = true

# Make egencache generate newer (more reliable)
# md5-dict cache format (see bug #409445).
# NOTE: list md5-dict first so clients prefer it
# INFRA NOTE: Format 'pms' was removed on Aug 6 2012. (Announced prior as Aug 1
# 2012 was the removal date)
cache-formats = md5-dict

# Support for implicit masters is deprecated, so we need to explicitly
# specify that this repo does not dependent on any masters, in order
# to distinguish it from repos that rely on the deprecated behavior.
masters =

[eyoung100]

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echo x-portage >> /opt/portage/profiles/repo_name

[midway]

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echo x-portage >> /opt/portage/profiles/repo_name

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~ # echo x-portage >> /opt/portage/profiles/repo_name
-bash: /opt/portage/profiles/repo_name: No such file or directory

[eyoung100]

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nano -w /opt/portage/repo_name

Add x-portage, save the file.

[midway]

eyoung100: created the repo_name and added x-portage. Still doing a emerge --sync it complains

!!! Repository 'x-portage' is missing masters attribute in '/opt/portage/metadata/layout.conf'
!!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in this file for future compatibility

[eyoung100]

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# Support for implicit masters is deprecated, so we need to explicitly 
# specify that this repo does not dependent on any masters, in order 
# to distinguish it from repos that rely on the deprecated behavior. 
masters = 

You need to talk to the repo maintainer as the layout.conf specifically states as above but emerge will keep complaing until masters=gentoo

[jms.gentoo]

also check in
/etc/portage/make.conf
if you have
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=whatever
" This variable is deprecated in favor of settings in repos.conf. This variable is a space-delimited list of directories. "
https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-ref ... index.html
if you have moved from layman to eselect repository
you might want to delete it

[freke]

You're reviving *quite* old posts