I notice that my eix DBs have been gradually becoming out-of-sync with
my ebuild repos. eix-update shows no errors but always says there are
the same number of packages.
Strace shows about 10k open errors:
~ # strace -fcw eix-update >/dev/null
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
34.11 0.492491 6 87192 read
28.34 0.409197 6 63923 10066 open
20.40 0.294469 5 53857 close
6.03 0.087096 9 9972 getdents
3.84 0.055440 5 10570 fstat
[...]
However most of these are only metadata/md5-cache files under my layman
directory, not the main portage tree. I have no idea what those files
are for anyway since there's no documentation.
It does seem to be doing something with the eix db itself as mtime is
changed - just no changes are reflected when querying it, even the
main repo. e.g.:
~ # eix -e portage
[?] sys-apps/portage
Available versions: 2.2.26 2.2.28 2.3.0{tbz2} (~)2.3.1 (~)2.3.2 2.3.3
**9999 {build doc epydoc +ipc (+)native-extensions selinux xattr LINGUAS="ru"
PYTHON_TARGETS="pypy python2_7 python3_4 python3_5 python3_6"}
Installed versions: 2.3.5(02:47:21 AM 03/18/2017)(doc ipc
native-extensions xattr -build -epydoc -selinux LINGUAS="-ru"
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 python3_5 python3_6 -pypy")
Homepage: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage
Description: Portage is the package management and distribution
system for Gentoo
