saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to emerge run

paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_cache.bash

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
+
+PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
+
+[[ -z ${PORTDIR} || "$(dirname ${PORTDIR})" == "/" ]] && die "PORTDIR empty or pointing to root!"
+
+
+die() {
+	eerror "${1}"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+einfo "syncing metadata cache"
+
+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

paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_dtd.bash

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
+
+PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
+
+[[ -z ${PORTDIR} || "$(dirname ${PORTDIR})" == "/" ]] && die "PORTDIR empty or pointing to root!"
+
+
+die() {
+	eerror "${1}"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+cd "${PORTDIR}"/metadata || die "could not cd into '${PORTDIR}/metadata'!"
+if [[ -e dtd ]] ; then
+	einfo "dtd dir already exists, updating..."
+	cd glsa || die "could not cd into 'dtd'!"
+	git pull --ff || die "could not pull updates!"
+else
+	einfo "dtd directory does not exist, cloning..."
+	git clone https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/data/dtd.git || die "could not clone repository!"
+fi
+

paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_glsa.bash

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
+
+PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
+
+[[ -z ${PORTDIR} || "$(dirname ${PORTDIR})" == "/" ]] && die "PORTDIR empty or pointing to root!"
+
+
+die() {
+	eerror "${1}"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+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!"
+else
+	einfo "glsa directory does not exist, cloning..."
+	git clone https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/data/glsa.git || die "could not clone repository!"
+fi
+

paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_herds_xml.bash

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
+
+PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
+
+[[ -z ${PORTDIR} || "$(dirname ${PORTDIR})" == "/" ]] && die "PORTDIR empty or pointing to root!"
+
+
+die() {
+	eerror "${1}"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+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/proj/api.git/plain/files/packages/herds.xml || die "failed to wget herds.xml"

paludis/hooks/sync_all_post/sync_news.bash

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
+
+source "${PALUDIS_EBUILD_DIR}/echo_functions.bash"
+
+[[ -z ${PORTDIR} || "$(dirname ${PORTDIR})" == "/" ]] && die "PORTDIR empty or pointing to root!"
+
+
+die() {
+	eerror "${1}"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+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!"
+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!"
+fi
+
+cd "${PORTDIR}"/metadata/news || die "failed to cd into ${PORTDIR}/metadata/news"
+git clean -fdxq || die "failed to clean git repo!"
+cp -a */* . || die "could not copy news dirs to base news dir!"

paludis/keywords.conf

@@ -604,7 +604,6 @@ sys-devel/bmake ~amd64
 media-sound/pnmixer *
 =virtual/libintl-0-r1 ~amd64
 ~dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.6.3 ~amd64
-=media-libs/harfbuzz-0.9.26-r1 ~amd64
 =x11-libs/pango-1.36.3-r2 ~amd64
 =x11-libs/cairo-1.12.16-r2 ~amd64
 =dev-db/sqlite-3.8.4.3 ~amd64
@@ -892,3 +891,7 @@ dev-python/foolscap ~amd64
 #www-servers/apache ~amd64
 
 dev-vcs/git-imerge ~amd64
+
+
+# texlive-core qtgui, libass
+media-libs/harfbuzz ~amd64

paludis/repositories/gentoo.conf

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 location = /usr/portage
-sync = 
+sync =
 profiles = ${location}/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0 /etc/paludis/profile
 distdir = /mnt/sda2/distfiles
 format = e