On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:35 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:52:37AM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote: > >> It sounds like you're thinking of the eix-diff application that comes with >> eix. >> When using eix-sync, it's run after the sync is complete to update the eix >> database; but it can be run by itself. To update a eix database, run >> 'eix-diff >> /var/cache/eix.previous /var/cache/eix' after you run eix-update. It will >> show >> all new ebuilds, what was removed, et cetera. > > Might do. I ran both, but eix-diff says > > void load_db(const char*, DBHeader*, PackageTree*, PortageSettings*): > Can't open the database file '/var/cache/eix.previous' for reading (mode = > 'rb') > > which I take as a particularly lazy way of telling me the cache hasn't > been created or is elsewhere. I'll investigate in a bit -- a quick > --help from both programs doesn't show anything obvious. Probably > something easy. > > Thanks. >
Run (I think) update-eix by hand, then eix-sync again.
