(solved) emerge --sync is asking for a github username

[<3]

I am not sure if this is related to the eselect news item posted on 2025-11-01 but whenever I run:

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emerge --sync

I am now asked to enter in a username for https://github.com.

I am not sure why I now need to enter in a github username, or how to address this issue.

[FilthyPitDog]

It was in the news https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-ite ... moval.html

You need to remove then enable the overlays affected with eselect repository

Cheers,
Filthy

[penguinomicon]

I overlooked the news item as well. Or, if I saw it, I didn't realize it affected things like steam-overlay and then forgot about it.

Anyway, the GitHub username thing is due to it being a 404. If you navigate to your erstwhile repo in a browser you'll see it's gone, so of course you can no longer fetch from it.

I guess an interesting feature request could be teach portage about some kind of "repo sync hook" so emerge would start yelling at us when we're using a deprecated repo.

[<3]

It was in the news https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-ite ... moval.html

You need to disable then enable the overlays affected with eselect repository

Cheers,
Filthy

I saw this news item and performed this as well, or so I thought.

[nov4p]

Hey, I've removed and enabled the repo (zugaina) which was previously using git, but with rsync it just fails.

A hint to use git in this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1174887.html made it work in the past.

Error message from rmaint sync:

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[5] "" /var/db/repos/zugaina (cache: parse|ebuild*3.0.24#metadata-md5#metadata-flat#assign)
     Reading category 183|183 (100) EMPTY!
Applying masks...
Calculating hash tables...
Writing database file /var/cache/eix/portage.eix...
Database contains 21526 packages in 183 categories
!!! Repository 'zugaina' is missing masters attribute in '/var/db/repos/zugaina/metadata/layout.conf'
!!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in this file for future compatibility

Action: sync for repo: zugaina, returned code = 1

previous (1-4) with status Finished.

[<3]

Hey, I've removed and enabled the repo (zugaina) which was previously using git, but with rsync it just fails.

A hint to use git in this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1174887.html made it work in the past.

Error message from rmaint sync:

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[5] "" /var/db/repos/zugaina (cache: parse|ebuild*3.0.24#metadata-md5#metadata-flat#assign)
     Reading category 183|183 (100) EMPTY!
Applying masks...
Calculating hash tables...
Writing database file /var/cache/eix/portage.eix...
Database contains 21526 packages in 183 categories
!!! Repository 'zugaina' is missing masters attribute in '/var/db/repos/zugaina/metadata/layout.conf'
!!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in this file for future compatibility

Action: sync for repo: zugaina, returned code = 1

previous (1-4) with status Finished.

Thanks nov4p, I followed that link and tried to recreate what you did. It turns out that I did in fact follow the instructions from that eselect news article. The issue was that I thought that I only had one repo in use, it turns out that I had another repo that I totaly forgot about in use as well. Running

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 emerge --info

printed out all the repos that I was using, then I was able to remove, then re-enable that repo. Thanks.

I propose that gentoo maintainers add a statement to that eselect news article to suggest that users run emerge --info to display all repos that the system is using.

[ryanknut]

For anyone else running into this, here's how I fixed it easily. Note this will only work if your shell is zsh.

store all the current overlay numbers in an array:

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overlays=()

while IFS= read -r line; do
  if [[ $line =~ '\[([0-9]+)\]' ]]; then
    overlays+=("${match[1]}")
  fi
done < <(eselect repository list -i)

double check that the list is correct by comparing it to eselect repository:

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eselect repository list -i
print -l "${overlays[@]}"

loop over the list, removing then re-adding:

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for item in "${overlays[@]}"; do
  eselect repository remove "$item"
  eselect repository enable "$item"
done