diff --git a/paludis/bashrc b/paludis/bashrc
index e9311b8..a9d2c0d 100644
--- a/paludis/bashrc
+++ b/paludis/bashrc
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ if [[
 	"${CATEGORY}/${PN}" != "sys-apps/paludis" &&
 	"${CATEGORY}/${PN}" != "dev-libs/crypto++" &&
 	"${CATEGORY}/${PN}" != "sys-power/iasl" &&
+	"${CATEGORY}/${PN}" != "net-libs/libmnl" &&
 	"${CATEGORY}/${PN}" != "x11-libs/pixman"
 	]]
 then
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_cache.bash b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_cache.bash
index 9f2fc35..c40a515 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_cache.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_cache.bash
@@ -1,13 +1,34 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
-source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/die_functions.bash"
 source "/etc/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash"
 
+overlay_list=(
+	arx-libertatis
+	desktop-overlay
+	dotnet
+	games-overlay
+	haskell
+	hasufell-overlay
+	libressl
+	media-overlay
+	prism-overlay
+	qt
+	torbrowser
+	tox-overlay
+)
 
-einfo "syncing metadata cache"
+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 $?
+
+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
+	eend $?
+fi
 
-for i in gentoo games-overlay desktop-overlay media-overlay prism-overlay libressl arx-libertatis dotnet haskell qt sage-on-gentoo torbrowser tox-overlay hasufell-overlay; do
-	egencache --jobs=8 --repo=${i} --update --update-use-local-desc \
-		|| die "egencache failed for overlay ${i}!"
-done
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_dtd.bash b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_dtd.bash
index 2e76cb5..54ef602 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_dtd.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_dtd.bash
@@ -1,17 +1,14 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
-source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/die_functions.bash"
 source "/etc/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash"
 
-
-cd "${PORTDIR}"/metadata || die "could not cd into '${PORTDIR}/metadata'!"
-if [[ -e dtd ]] ; then
-	einfo "dtd dir already exists, updating..."
-	cd dtd || die "could not cd into 'dtd'!"
-	git pull --ff || die "could not pull updates!"
+DTDDIR=${PORTDIR}/metadata/dtd
+ebegin "Updating DTDs"
+if [[ -e ${DTDDIR} ]]; then
+	git -C "${DTDDIR}" pull --ff
 else
-	einfo "dtd directory does not exist, cloning..."
-	git clone https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/data/dtd.git || die "could not clone repository!"
+	git clone https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/data/dtd.git "${DTDDIR}"
 fi
+eend "$?"
 
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_glsa.bash b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_glsa.bash
index 7035d74..5087de4 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_glsa.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_glsa.bash
@@ -1,17 +1,14 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
-source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/die_functions.bash"
 source "/etc/paludis/hooks/set_portdir.bash"
 
-
-cd "${PORTDIR}"/metadata || die "could not cd into '${PORTDIR}/metadata'!"
-if [[ -e glsa ]] ; then
-	einfo "glsa dir already exists, updating..."
-	cd glsa || die "could not cd into 'glsa'!"
-	git pull --ff || die "could not pull updates!"
+GLSADIR=${PORTDIR}/metadata/glsa
+ebegin "Updating GLSAs"
+if [[ -e ${GLSADIR} ]]; then
+	git -C "${GLSADIR}" pull --ff
 else
-	einfo "glsa directory does not exist, cloning..."
-	git clone https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/data/glsa.git || die "could not clone repository!"
+	git clone https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/data/glsa.git "${GLSADIR}"
 fi
+eend "$?"
 
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_herds_xml.bash b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_herds_xml.bash
index fe50a82..1454b1b 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_herds_xml.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_herds_xml.bash
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
-source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/die_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
+eend $?
 
-cd "${PORTDIR}"/metadata || die "could not cd into '${PORTDIR}/metadata'!"
-[[ -e "${PORTDIR}"/metadata/herds.xml ]] && { rm "${PORTDIR}"/metadata/herds.xml || die "failed to rm herds.xml!" ;}
-wget https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/api.git/plain/files/packages/herds.xml || die "failed to wget herds.xml"
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_news.bash b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_news.bash
index 9afa371..b49bc4b 100644
--- a/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_news.bash
+++ b/paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_news.bash
@@ -3,23 +3,25 @@
 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"
 
-
-cd "${PORTDIR}"/metadata || die "could not cd into '${PORTDIR}/metadata'!"
-if [[ -e news ]] ; then
-	einfo "news dir already exists, updating..."
-	cd news || die "could not cd into 'news'!"
-	git pull --ff || die "could not pull updates!"
+NEWSDIR="${PORTDIR}"/metadata/news
+ebegin "Updating news items"
+if [[ -e ${NEWSDIR} ]]; then
+	git -C "${NEWSDIR}" pull --ff
 else
-	einfo "glsa directory does not exist, cloning..."
-	git clone https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/gentoo-news.git news || die "could not clone repository!"
+	git clone https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/gentoo-news.git "${NEWSDIR}"
 fi
+eend_die $?
 
-cd "${PORTDIR}"/metadata/news || die "failed to cd into ${PORTDIR}/metadata/news"
-git clean -fdxq || die "failed to clean git repo!"
+ebegin "Cleaning news git repo"
+git -C "${NEWSDIR}" clean -fdxq
+eend_die $?
 
-if [[ -n "$(find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "*-*-*")" ]] ; then
+[[ -n "$(find "${NEWSDIR}" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "*-*-*")" ]] &&
 	die "it seems the repository format of proj/gentoo-news has changed! Update your script!"
-else
-	cp -a */* . || die "could not copy news dirs to base news dir!"
-fi
+
+ebegin "Copying news to base directory"
+cp -a "${NEWSDIR}"/*/* "${NEWSDIR}"
+eend $?
+
diff --git a/paludis/hooks/util_functions.bash b/paludis/hooks/util_functions.bash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6a430a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paludis/hooks/util_functions.bash
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
+
+eend_die() {
+	eend "$@"
+	[[ $1 -ne 0 ]] && exit $1
+}
diff --git a/paludis/keywords.conf b/paludis/keywords.conf
index 2d5a634..59332d8 100644
--- a/paludis/keywords.conf
+++ b/paludis/keywords.conf
@@ -907,3 +907,5 @@ dev-perl/LWP-UserAgent-Cached ~amd64
 
 # testing exiv-2.5
 media-sound/xmp ~amd64
+
+~net-libs/libmnl-1.0.3 ~amd64
diff --git a/resolv.conf b/resolv.conf
index e4d333a..7fdd54c 100644
--- a/resolv.conf
+++ b/resolv.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 nameserver 8.8.8.8
 nameserver 192.168.0.1
 nameserver 192.168.0.2
-nameserver 2a02:908:2:1108::11
-nameserver 2a02:908:2:1107::11
+nameserver 2001:4860:4860::8888
+nameserver 2001:4860:4860::8844