diff --git a/metadata/layout.conf b/metadata/layout.conf
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+# For details on this file, see the layout.conf section of the
+# portage(5) man page.
+
+# Allow specific PROPERTIES and RESTRICT values in ebuilds.
+properties-allowed = interactive live test_network
+restrict-allowed = binchecks bindist fetch installsources mirror preserve-libs splitdebug strip test userpriv
+
+# manifest-hashes specify hashes used for new/updated entries
+# the current set went live on 2017-11-21, per 2017-11-12 Council meeting
+# https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/ba2e5d9666ebd7e1bff1143485a37856
+manifest-hashes = BLAKE2B SHA512
+
+# The following hashes are required on all Manifest entries. If any
+# of them are missing, repoman will refetch and rehash old distfiles.
+# Otherwise, old distfiles will keep using their current hash set.
+manifest-required-hashes = BLAKE2B
+
+# 2013-04-09 gentoo's council says to deprecate EAPIs 1 and 2 (bug #470670).
+# 2014-02-25 council meeting deprecated EAPIs 0 and 3.
+# 2014-03-11 council meeting banned EAPIs 1 and 2.
+# 2015-10-11 council meeting deprecated EAPI 4.
+# 2016-01-10 council meeting banned EAPIs 0 and 3.
+# 2018-04-08 council meeting banned EAPI 4.
+# 2018-05-13 council meeting deprecated EAPI 5 for ebuilds.
+# 2021-07-11 council meeting deprecated EAPI 6.
+# 2021-08-08 council meeting banned EAPI 5.
+eapis-banned = 0 1 2 3 4 5
+eapis-deprecated = 6
+
+# EAPIs 0 to 4 are banned for profiles
+# EAPIs 6 and 7 do not include any profile related changes
+profile-eapis-banned = 0 1 2 3 4 6 7
+profile-eapis-deprecated =
+
+# Bug #337853 - gentoo's council says to enable
+# --echangelog by default for the "gentoo" repo
+# INFRA NOTE 2015/08/08: No more old ChangeLogs in Git
+update-changelog = false
+
+# Make egencache generate newer (more reliable)
+# md5-dict cache format (see bug #409445).
+# NOTE: list md5-dict first so clients prefer it
+# INFRA NOTE: Format 'pms' was removed on Aug 6 2012. (Announced prior as Aug 1
+# 2012 was the removal date)
+cache-formats = md5-dict
+
+# Support for implicit masters is deprecated, so we need to explicitly
+# specify that this repo does not depend on any masters, in order
+# to distinguish it from repos that rely on the deprecated behavior.
+masters = gentoo
+
+# Use thin Manifests for Git
+thin-manifests = false
+
+# Sign Git commits, and NOT Manifests
+sign-commits = false
+sign-manifests = false
diff --git a/profiles/repo_name b/profiles/repo_name
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+jmanson_repo