ERROR pkgcore: invalid license group reference about pkgcore HOT 3 CLOSED

The issue is (I think) that these license groups are not defined in the guru repo, only in the gentoo tree. Is this intended behaviour? Do all repos have to define all license groups that they are using?

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The issue is (I think) that these license groups are not defined in the guru repo, only in the gentoo tree. Is this intended behaviour? Do all repos have to define all license groups that they are using?

The license_groups file is beyond the scope of PMS, but is defined in GLEP 23. Which doesn't specify overlay behaviour:

These groups are defined in a new file license_groups in the profiles subdirectory of the tree (or overlays). Details of handling groups defined in overlays is implementation dependent.

However, if we follow the general principle outlined in PMS for other files ...

If the repository is not intended to be stand-alone, the contents of these files are to be taken from or merged with the master repository as necessary.

... then Pkgcore should take the license_groups file from the master repository into account.

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OK, I found a fix (surprisingly was very simple and short).
Currently working on writing a test so we can check the behavior was broken before and works now.

@Alessandro-Barbieri I tested with the line you specified, and it failed as you said, and after the fix is works now - so thank you for precise report with easy way to reproduce 😄

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