On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 03:19:02 +0100 Patrick B�rjesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To be able to search the most current tree of portage-packages with > esearch you'll have to update the "database" that esearch uses. This > is done by running'eupdatedb'. Else the database will represent the > portage-tree as it was the latest time you ran eupdatedb. > The reason esearch is so much faster than 'emerge -s' is that it > creates a database to search from... > > Patrick B�rjesson Thank you Patrick and Ciaran for the answers. I've been running Gentoo for about 2 years and read this list regularly but have only heard of "eupdatedb" just this week. I run updatedb whenever I get a message that the db is more than 8 days old but I have just never run across "eupdatedb". Thanks again. lodger -- Powered by Gentoo Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
