{'description': {'en': 'Overlay of Benny Pedersen'},
 'name': 'fidonet',
 'owner': [{'email': 'me@junc.org',
            'name': 'Benny Pedersen',
            'type': 'person'}],
 'quality': 'experimental',
 'source': [{'type': 'rsync',
             'uri': 'rsync://fidonet.overlay.junc.org/fidonet/'}],
 'status': 'unofficial'}
pkgcore 0.12.16

$ pmaint --config /var/lib/repo-mirror-ci/data-sync/etc/portage sync fidonet
ERROR:pkgcore:Cannot write cache for /var/cache/pkgcore/plugincache: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/pkgcore/.update.plugincache'. Try running pplugincache.
*** syncing fidonet
This is overlay.junc.org.


Number of files: 1 (reg: 1)
Number of created files: 0
Number of deleted files: 0
Number of regular files transferred: 1
Total file size: 32 bytes
Total transferred file size: 32 bytes
Literal data: 32 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 48
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 85
Total bytes received: 134

sent 85 bytes  received 134 bytes  87.60 bytes/sec
total size is 32  speedup is 0.15
*** synced fidonet
 * Sync succeeded
$ stat --format=%y .
$ pmaint --config /var/lib/repo-mirror-ci/data/etc/portage regen --use-local-desc --pkg-desc-index -t 32 fidonet
ERROR:pkgcore:Cannot write cache for /var/cache/pkgcore/plugincache: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/pkgcore/.update.plugincache'. Try running pplugincache.
 * Cache regenerated successfully