Trouble contributing to guru

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Luke Gompertz · Post by **Luke Gompertz** » Fri Dec 19, 2025 10:25 am

Hi all. I've written an ebuild for noctalia (a quickshell configuration) and was convinced by some gentooers to contribute it to guru. The ebuild is now passing pkgcheck with no issues so I'm hoping to publish it.

I've followed all the steps here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GU ... Committing

including filing an access request which has been granted: https://bugs.gentoo.org/967698

Unfortunately, at the very last step (push to remote) I'm getting an error:

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$ git pull --rebase && pkgdev push -A
Current branch dev is up to date.
Error: invalid repo: nonexistent masters: gentoo
error: failed to push some refs to 'git.gentoo.org:repo/proj/guru.git'

I'm unsure what the error message is referring to. Does anyone know what I should do to resolve it?

Thanks!

netfab · Post by **netfab** » Fri Dec 19, 2025 12:49 pm

Hi,

Please post your emerge --info.
Do you have a up-to-date portage tree on this system ?

Luke Gompertz · Post by **Luke Gompertz** » Fri Dec 19, 2025 1:31 pm

Thanks for the reply. I'm somewhat surprised by this line of questioning. As per the linked guide I started by performing a

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git clone -b dev git@git.gentoo.org:repo/proj/guru.git

which I did in a (non-root) user folder. I didn't expect that the general state of the system would be involved.

Regardless prompted by this I synced and updated my system and the error message is the same. Here is emerge --info as requested:

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Portage 3.0.72 (python 3.13.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-15, glibc-2.41-r6, 6.12.58-gentoo-dist x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-6.12.58-gentoo-dist-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2500S_CPU_@_2.70GHz-with-glibc2.41
KiB Mem:    16341240 total,   7478968 free
KiB Swap:   33554428 total,  33554428 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:15:00 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: d1182bd1aa7990714caafef751a10216da8c5c79
Timestamp of repository guru: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:45:52 +0000
Head commit of repository guru: dfef68c7cce16e0606e5cf6a2359d501ebd4a66f

Head commit of repository steam-overlay: 2df53704f79e93805af33feb64bc51748289e7c2

sh bash 5.3_p3-r3
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.45.1 p1) 2.45.1
app-misc/pax-utils:        1.3.8::gentoo
app-shells/bash:           5.3_p3-r3::gentoo
dev-build/autoconf:        2.72-r4::gentoo
dev-build/automake:        1.18.1::gentoo
dev-build/cmake:           4.1.2-r1::gentoo
dev-build/libtool:         2.5.4::gentoo
dev-build/make:            4.4.1-r102::gentoo
dev-build/meson:           1.9.1::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:      2.3.4::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:             5.42.0-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/python:           3.13.9::gentoo, 3.14.0_p1::gentoo
dev-lang/rust:             1.89.0::gentoo
dev-lang/rust-bin:         1.89.0::gentoo
llvm-core/clang:           20.1.8::gentoo
llvm-core/lld:             20.1.8::gentoo
llvm-core/llvm:            20.1.8::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:       2.18::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:          2.46::gentoo
sys-apps/systemd:          257.10::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:        2.45.1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.6::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:             15.2.1_p20251122::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:      2.12.2::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers:  6.12::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:            2.41-r6::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /var/db/repos/gentoo
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000
    volatile: False
    sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
    sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1
    sync-rsync-extra-opts:
    sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 3

guru
    location: /var/db/repos/guru
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/guru.git
    masters: gentoo
    volatile: False

local
    location: /var/db/repos/local
    masters: gentoo
    volatile: False

steam-overlay
    location: /var/db/repos/steam-overlay
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay.git
    masters: gentoo
    volatile: False

Binary Repositories:

binhost
    priority: 9999
    sync-uri: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/binpackages/23.0/x86-64

Installed sets: @esteam, @hyprland
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --read-news --binpkg-respect-use=y"
ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_STATE_HOME"
FCFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs binpkg-multi-instance binpkg-request-signature buildpkg-live config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync merge-wait multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox pkgdir-index-trusted preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="https://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/     http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/     rsync://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/     https://mirrors.gethosted.online/gentoo/     http://mirrors.gethosted.online/gentoo/     https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/distfiles.gentoo.org/     http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/distfiles.gentoo.org/     ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/distfiles.gentoo.org/     rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/distfiles.gentoo.org/"
LANG="en_GB.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs"
LEX="flex"
MAKEOPTS="--jobs 3"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS="bzip2"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
RUSTFLAGS=" -C target-cpu=native"
SHELL="/bin/bash"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avif bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cet colord crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds encode evo exif flac gdbm gdk-pixbuf gif gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gnome-shell gpm gstreamer gui iconv icu introspection ipv6 jpeg jpegxl kde keyring lcms libnotify libtirpc mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pulseaudio qml qt6 readline sdl seccomp sound spell ssl startup-notification svg sysprof systemd test-rust tiff tracker truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis vulkan wayland webp wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xft xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gcc_15" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_anon authn_dbm authn_file authz_dbm authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 aes avx pclmul popcnt sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax navcom oceanserver oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 tsip tripmate tnt ublox" GUILE_SINGLE_TARGET="3-0" GUILE_TARGETS="3-0" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb text" LLVM_TARGETS="X86" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php8-3" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres17" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_13" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_13" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby32 ruby33" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel nouveau radeon radeonsi vesa dummy" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tarpit sysrq proto logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  ADDR2LINE, AR, ARFLAGS, AS, ASFLAGS, CC, CCLD, CONFIG_SHELL, CPP, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, CXXFILT, ELFEDIT, EXTRA_ECONF, F77FLAGS, FC, GCOV, GPROF, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LD, LFLAGS, LIBTOOL, LINGUAS, MAKE, MAKEFLAGS, NM, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PYTHONPATH, RANLIB, READELF, SIZE, STRINGS, STRIP, YACC, YFLAGS

I guessing based on this that the clone needs to be performed in a specific location? (Or that I should be using the existing guru repo at /var/db/repos/guru?)

netfab · Post by **netfab** » Fri Dec 19, 2025 2:42 pm

Please share the content of /etc/portage/repos.conf.

netfab · Post by **netfab** » Fri Dec 19, 2025 2:51 pm

From this comment :

pkgcore support for portage config parsing is compatible with basic settings from repos.conf, but won't go searching for it in /usr/share/portage.

I'd advise using /etc/portage/repos.conf or submitting a convincing argument as to why pkgcore should go searching for it in other portage-centric locations.

If your gentoo repository is not defined in /etc/portage/repos.conf, but in /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf, then you must follow this :
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Pkgcheck#e ... or_invalid

Luke Gompertz · Post by **Luke Gompertz** » Fri Dec 19, 2025 3:14 pm

Thanks again. I have the gentoo repo defined here:
/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf

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[DEFAULT]
main-repo = gentoo

[gentoo]
location = /var/db/repos/gentoo
sync-type = rsync
sync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
auto-sync = yes
sync-rsync-verify-jobs = 1
sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = yes
sync-rsync-verify-max-age = 3
sync-openpgp-key-path = /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc
sync-openpgp-keyserver = hkps://keys.gentoo.org
sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-count = 40
sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-overall-timeout = 1200
sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-delay-exp-base = 2
sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-delay-max = 60
sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-delay-mult = 4
sync-webrsync-verify-signature = yes

The same folder also contains `eselect-repo.conf`:

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# created by eselect-repo

[guru]
location = /var/db/repos/guru
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/guru.git

[local]
location = /var/db/repos/local


[steam-overlay]
location = /var/db/repos/steam-overlay
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay.git

It's also worth mentioning since you linked the pkgcheck page that I ran pkgcheck scan against my ebuild and it worked just fine.

netfab · Post by **netfab** » Fri Dec 19, 2025 6:10 pm

Then sorry, I don't know. Do you have some more output if you add the --debug option to the pkgdev command ?

Luke Gompertz · Post by **Luke Gompertz** » Fri Dec 19, 2025 6:43 pm

Doesn't appear to be very enlightening:

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$ git pull --rebase && pkgdev push --debug -A
remote: Enumerating objects: 51, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (51/51), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (36/36), done.
remote: Total 36 (delta 25), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (36/36), 7.91 KiB | 674.00 KiB/s, done.
From git.gentoo.org:repo/proj/guru
   99d8ccd98..b44303bfe  dev        -> origin/dev
Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/dev.
DEBUG pkgcheck: skipping guru git repo cache update on non-default branch 'dev'
games-util/modrinth-app-bin
  BadDescription: version 0.10.15: over 80 chars in length
  BadDescription: version 0.10.18: over 80 chars in length
  BadDescription: version 0.10.23: over 80 chars in length

dev-python/guidata
  PythonCompatUpdate: version 3.13.2: PYTHON_COMPAT update available: python3_14
Error: invalid repo: nonexistent masters: gentoo
error: failed to push some refs to 'git.gentoo.org:repo/proj/guru.git'

netfab · Post by **netfab** » Sat Dec 20, 2025 7:06 am

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Error: invalid repo: nonexistent masters: gentoo

This error popups from pkgcore. You should open an issue. Maybe someone could help you.

Luke Gompertz · Post by **Luke Gompertz** » Mon Dec 22, 2025 5:48 pm

Thanks again. Will do.

Luke Gompertz · Post by **Luke Gompertz** » Sun Dec 28, 2025 10:48 am

For anyone stumbling upon this in the future. The issue was narrowed down the the `pkgcruft` hook. Still unsure what was wrong with the `pkgcruft` config (possibly the package has a bug, even). I have worked around this for now by removing the git hook and running `pkgcheck scan --commits` manually.