/etc/portage/repos.conf

can be a file or directory of files that specifies site-specific repository configuration information.

Format

 * Comments begin with  (no inline comments)
 * Configuration of each repository is specified in a section starting with
 * Attributes are specified in  format

Main Gentoo repository
For a setup using    (<=portage-2.2.18),   (>=portage-2.2.19), see the webrsync.conf article.

Local Overlay
For further information see the Overlay/Local_overlay article.

as a single file
For an example of repos.conf as a monolithic file, run this command and search for the repos.conf section:

Listing repositories
To see a compact list of repositories, formatted for easy reading:

To see a detailed list of repositories, without any formatting:

External resources

 * Portage Sync news announcement (2015-02-04)