On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Luis Ressel <ara...@aixah.de> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:37:15 +0100 > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Hello, everyone. >> >> I've finished the GLEP 67 transition last night, and it officially >> applies to all metadata.xml files now. >> > > Great! > >> In order to have repoman apply it correct (and not throw errors on new >> metadata.xml files), it needs to refetch metadata.dtd. Sadly, this >> currently happens once a week, so it's better to remove the file >> manually to force refetch: >> >> rm "$(portageq envvar DISTDIR)"/metadata.dtd >> > > I might be asking this for a second time, but why does repoman download > the metadata.dtd at all? If one fetches from > git://../gentoo-mirror/gentoo (or via rsync, afaik) it is included > in /usr/portage/metadata/dtd/.
repoman is a developer tool. The git repo used by developers does not include metadata.dtd.
