diff --git a/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash b/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash
index a87e2ab..c292fa1 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # set PORTDIR
 
-PORTDIR="$(cave print-repository-metadata --raw-name location gentoo)"
+PORTDIR="$(${CAVE} print-repository-metadata --raw-name location gentoo)"
 PORTDIR="${PORTDIR#location=}"
 
 if [[ -z ${PORTDIR} || "$(dirname ${PORTDIR})" == "/" ]] ; then
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_cache.bash b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_cache.bash
index c40a515..f691e9d 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_cache.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_cache.bash
@@ -3,23 +3,13 @@
 source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
 source "/etc/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash"
 
+# you may change this to only update cache of specific overlays
 overlay_list=(
-	arx-libertatis
-	desktop-overlay
-	dotnet
-	games-overlay
-	haskell
-	hasufell-overlay
-	libressl
-	media-overlay
-	prism-overlay
-	qt
-	torbrowser
-	tox-overlay
+	$(${CAVE} print-repositories | grep -vE '(^gentoo$|^installed$|^installed-unpackaged$|^layman$|^paludis-overlay$|^repository$)')
 )
 
 ebegin "Syncing metadata cache for gentoo repository"
-#rsync -avPq rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/metadata/md5-cache/ "${PORTDIR}"/metadata/md5-cache/
+rsync -avPq rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/metadata/md5-cache/ "${PORTDIR}"/metadata/md5-cache/
 egencache --jobs=$(nproc) --repo=gentoo --update --update-use-local-desc
 eend $?
 
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_news.bash b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_news.bash
index b49bc4b..bfc1e61 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_news.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_news.bash
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
-source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/die_functions.bash"
 source "/etc/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash"
 source "/etc/paludis/hooks/util_functions.bash"
 
@@ -18,9 +17,6 @@ ebegin "Cleaning news git repo"
 git -C "${NEWSDIR}" clean -fdxq
 eend_die $?
 
-[[ -n "$(find "${NEWSDIR}" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "*-*-*")" ]] &&
-	die "it seems the repository format of proj/gentoo-news has changed! Update your script!"
-
 ebegin "Copying news to base directory"
 cp -a "${NEWSDIR}"/*/* "${NEWSDIR}"
 eend $?
diff --git a/paludis/package_unmask.conf b/paludis/package_unmask.conf
index 5796f74..ce738d9 100644
--- a/paludis/package_unmask.conf
+++ b/paludis/package_unmask.conf
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ app-office/ganttproject-bin::sunrise
 <media-video/mpv-9999
 
 
->=net-voip/linphone-3.8.0
->=media-libs/mediastreamer-2.11.0
->=net-libs/ortp-0.24.0
->=net-libs/belle-sip-1.4.0
+#>=net-voip/linphone-3.8.0
+#>=media-libs/mediastreamer-2.11.0
+#>=net-libs/ortp-0.24.0
+#>=net-libs/belle-sip-1.4.0