On Oct 3, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:

On Saturday 03 October 2009 20:20:47 Harry Putnam wrote:
Roy Wright <r...@wright.org> writes:
update-eix-remote is an executable, not an option to the eix
executable.  After running update-eix-remote your normal eix queries
will include overlays.

Ha.. no wonder I didn't find it.

However its not a part of the eix package nor is it visible on
portage.  At least

equery files eix|grep remote fails to show it and

`eix eix-remote' fails as well.


Those files changed names in recent versions of eix. There is no more update-
eix-remote. It's all in the ChangeLog.


The old update-eix-remote would index all available overlays which made it real handy for finding which overlay you needed. The new eix- remote seems to only index the overlays you have installed. Am I missing something?

Also I keep getting this error message, even after explicitly running eix-update:

# eix-remote update
* Fetching eix-caches.tbz2
--2009-10-03 14:13:07--  
http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/eix_cache/eix-caches.tbz2
Resolving dev.gentooexperimental.org... 81.93.240.53
Connecting to dev.gentooexperimental.org|81.93.240.53|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 46 [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `eix-caches.tbz2'

100% [= = = ====================================================================>] 46 --.-K/s in 0s

2009-10-03 14:13:07 (10.7 MB/s) - `eix-caches.tbz2' saved [46/46]

* Unpacking data
Can't open the database file /tmp/eix-remote.5zs73hch/1/* for reading (mode = 'rb')
Did you forget to create it with 'eix-update'?
* is broken
* Calling eix-update
...


TIA,
Roy


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