diff --git a/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash b/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash
index c292fa1..5924aa5 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 
 # set PORTDIR
 
-PORTDIR="$(${CAVE} print-repository-metadata --raw-name location gentoo)"
-PORTDIR="${PORTDIR#location=}"
+PORTDIR="$(${CAVE} print-repository-metadata --format '%v' --raw-name location gentoo)"
 
 if [[ -z ${PORTDIR} || "$(dirname ${PORTDIR})" == "/" ]] ; then
 	die "PORTDIR empty or pointing to root!"
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/01-sync_cache.bash b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/01-sync_cache.bash
index 05db12e..111daf1 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/01-sync_cache.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/01-sync_cache.bash
@@ -2,23 +2,23 @@
 
 source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
 source "/etc/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash"
+source "/etc/paludis/hooks/util_functions.bash"
 
-# you may change this to only update cache of specific overlays
-overlay_list=(
-	$(${CAVE} print-repositories | grep -vE '(^gentoo$|^installed$|^installed-unpackaged$|^layman$|^paludis-overlay$|^repository$)')
-)
+# You may change this to only update cache of specific repositories.
+# Should at least include 'gentoo'. Default is all repositories.
+repository_list=( $(${CAVE} print-repositories --format e) )
 
-ebegin "Syncing metadata cache for gentoo repository"
-#rsync -avPq rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/metadata/md5-cache/ "${PORTDIR}"/metadata/md5-cache/
-egencache --jobs=$(nproc) --repo=gentoo --update --update-use-local-desc
-eend $?
+# Number of jobs for egencache, default is number or processors.
+egencache_jobnum="$(nproc)"
 
-if [[ ${#overlay_list[@]} -gt 0 ]] ; then
-	ebegin "Syncing metadata cache for overlays"
-	for _overlay in ${overlay_list[@]} ; do
-		einfo "  ${_overlay}"
-		egencache --jobs=$(nproc) --repo=${_overlay} --update --update-use-local-desc
-	done
+#ebegin "Fetching pre-generated metadata cache for gentoo repository"
+#rsync -aq rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/metadata/md5-cache/ "${PORTDIR}"/metadata/md5-cache/
+#eend $?
+
+einfo "Updating metadata cache for repositories:"
+for _repo in ${repository_list[@]} ; do
+	ebegin "  ${_repo}"
+	egencache --jobs=${egencache_jobnum} --repo=${_repo} --update --update-use-local-desc
 	eend $?
-fi
+done
 
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/02-sync_dtd.bash b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/02-sync_dtd.bash
index 54ef602..3a57acb 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/02-sync_dtd.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/02-sync_dtd.bash
@@ -6,9 +6,8 @@ source "/etc/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash"
 DTDDIR=${PORTDIR}/metadata/dtd
 ebegin "Updating DTDs"
 if [[ -e ${DTDDIR} ]]; then
-	git -C "${DTDDIR}" pull --ff
+	git -C "${DTDDIR}" pull -q --ff
 else
-	git clone https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/data/dtd.git "${DTDDIR}"
+	git clone -q https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/data/dtd.git "${DTDDIR}"
 fi
 eend "$?"
-
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/03-sync_glsa.bash b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/03-sync_glsa.bash
index 5087de4..1f90505 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/03-sync_glsa.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/03-sync_glsa.bash
@@ -6,9 +6,8 @@ source "/etc/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash"
 GLSADIR=${PORTDIR}/metadata/glsa
 ebegin "Updating GLSAs"
 if [[ -e ${GLSADIR} ]]; then
-	git -C "${GLSADIR}" pull --ff
+	git -C "${GLSADIR}" pull -q --ff
 else
-	git clone https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/data/glsa.git "${GLSADIR}"
+	git clone -q https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/data/glsa.git "${GLSADIR}"
 fi
 eend "$?"
-
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/04-sync_herds_xml.bash b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/04-sync_herds_xml.bash
index 1454b1b..3169df8 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/04-sync_herds_xml.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/04-sync_herds_xml.bash
@@ -4,6 +4,5 @@ source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
 source "/etc/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash"
 
 ebegin "Updating herds.xml"
-wget -O "${PORTDIR}"/metadata/herds.xml https://api.gentoo.org/packages/herds.xml
+wget -q -O "${PORTDIR}"/metadata/herds.xml https://api.gentoo.org/packages/herds.xml
 eend $?
-
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/05-sync_news.bash b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/05-sync_news.bash
index bfc1e61..4ce3576 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/05-sync_news.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/05-sync_news.bash
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ source "/etc/paludis/hooks/util_functions.bash"
 NEWSDIR="${PORTDIR}"/metadata/news
 ebegin "Updating news items"
 if [[ -e ${NEWSDIR} ]]; then
-	git -C "${NEWSDIR}" pull --ff
+	git -C "${NEWSDIR}" pull -q --ff
 else
-	git clone https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/gentoo-news.git "${NEWSDIR}"
+	git clone -q https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/gentoo-news.git "${NEWSDIR}"
 fi
 eend_die $?
 
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/util_functions.bash b/paludis/hooks/util_functions.bash
index 6a430a9..8a2e188 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/util_functions.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/util_functions.bash
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ eend_die() {
 	eend "$@"
 	[[ $1 -ne 0 ]] && exit $1
 }
+