On 2012-04-17 1:41 AM, Vaeth <va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
I haven't searched layman for packages in a long time (actually had to
google how to do it), and am getting an error I can't seem to solve...

Unfortunately, you have not written the actual error
which should appear probably a few (probably one) lines before:

Nope...

After running eix-remote update, it downloads the file, then the very next lines are:

 * Unpacking data
/tmp/eix-remote.m6Ri2tl1/1/_var_lib_layman_a3li.eix was created with an incompatible eix-update:
It uses database format 101 (current is 28).
Please run 'eix-update' and try again.

Followed by similar lines with different cache file names for however many hundred or so files there are...

Then the last error is as I said:

Writing database file /var/cache/eix ..
Database contains 16219 packages in 155 categories.
* could not read all eix cachefiles of /tmp/eix-remote.zv5peao3/eix-caches.tbz2

Probably your eix cachefile was *not* updated successfully.
Unless the above messages suggest another cause or you specified a
wrong filename, the most likely cause of this is that the server uses
another eix version than you or produced broken data. Please inspect
        /tmp/eix-remote.zv5peao3/eix-caches.tbz2
whether this is a valid *.tar.bz2 archive containing eix cachefiles
(if it has already been deleted, download it using fetch).
If this is not the case (but was freshly downloaded), please report a bug. Note that the archive is *not* broken if only the cachefile format versions differ: In that case only report a bug if the eix cachefile format versions in the downloaded file are *older* than that of the most current ~x86 eix version in the portage tree (but first retry after several days before reporting such a bug to give the server maintainers a chance to upgrade after a version bump of eix). Conversely, if the downloaded versions are even newer than that supported by your eix, you will have to upgrade to the most current ~x86 version of eix to use eix-remote: This inconvenience cannot be avoided and is not a bug!

problems arised with cachefile _var_lib_layman_zugaina.eix
* Calling eix-update...
* could not read all eix cachefiles of
/tmp/eix-remote.dhR5mKNK/eix-caches.tbz2

Maybe this error speaks about differing versions?

Apparently it does, but *how* did this happen??

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