[gentoo-user] Re: about layman and eix search
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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about layman and eix search
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. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: about layman and eix search
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: [...] It must be common task for people using overlays... so anyone know how its done. Hi, Create the file /etc/eix-sync.conf with this one character in it: * Then you can simply run eix-sync to automatically sync your overlays, main portage tree, and update the EIX cache. Afterward it will show you what is new or has changed. No need to run layman -S or emerge --sync ever again. :) Also, if you have any overlays that don't include metadata, you can add lines like this beneath the asterisk in eix-sync.conf to make it generate cache for them: !egencache --repo=theoverlayname --update At least that's how I do it. Nice... I do use eix-sync for a good while now... but had not synced since installing layman... and found the out of date directions posted earlier. ... I didn't realize eix-sync would synchronize overlays too... I've never had an overlay before. ... I'm setting up `sunshine' now thanks.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about layman and eix search
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
