on 07/08/2013 11:12 AM Daniel Pielmeier wrote the following: > 2013/7/7 Neil Bothwick <[email protected]>: >> On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote: >> >>> I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search >>> locally *all* layman overlays. >>> What commands and settings should I use? >> >> LOCAL_LAYMAN=/path/to/layman/storage eix-remote -q update >> > > A good explaination on how to use eix-remote can be found here [1] and > as usual in the man pages. > > [1] http://klaig.blogspot.de/2013/04/how-to-search-super-quickly-in-all.html >
Following the above, I see that the way ti search for remote (not locally installed overlays) is to use the -R option. >From eix (app-portage/eix-0.28.5) man page: -R, --remote Uses the value of EIX_REMOTE1 as cache file name. Use this option if you want to see what eix-remote produced. You can make this option the default by setting REMOTE_DEFAULT=1. So in /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc I have set KEEP_VIRTUALS=true REMOTE_DEFAULT=1 and now when doing a search I get results from all layman overlays (either installed or not). I am not sure whether the KEEP_VIRTUALS setting is needed though, because the man page is *not* clear to me. Besides, in the bugs section of the man page, it says: The previous default KEEP_VIRTUALS=true used to confuse people. However, with the new default, nobody will find out that this feature exists. :(
