{'description': {'en': 'Unofficial ebuilds for Gitlab'},
 'homepage': 'https://gitlab.awesome-it.de/overlays/gitlab',
 'name': 'gitlab',
 'owner': [{'email': 'prote@fmi.uni-stuttgart.de',
            'name': 'Horst Prote',
            'type': 'person'}],
 'quality': 'experimental',
 'source': [{'type': 'git',
             'uri': 'https://gitlab.awesome-it.de/overlays/gitlab.git'}],
 'status': 'unofficial'}
pkgcore 0.12.16

$ pmaint --config /var/lib/repo-mirror-ci/data-sync/etc/portage sync gitlab
ERROR:pkgcore:Cannot write cache for /var/cache/pkgcore/plugincache: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/pkgcore/.update.plugincache'. Try running pplugincache.
*** syncing gitlab
Already up to date.
*** synced gitlab
 * Sync succeeded
$ git log --format=%ci -1
$ git show -q --pretty=format:%G? HEAD
$ pmaint --config /var/lib/repo-mirror-ci/data/etc/portage regen --use-local-desc --pkg-desc-index -t 32 gitlab
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