On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 31 December 2009 00:40:24 Dale wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Wednesday 30 December 2009 14:21:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:44:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>>>> You need to run eix-remote -q update to have layman overlays added to >> >>>>> the eix database. >> >>>> >> >>>> I think he wants to know what overlay a given ebuild is in without >> >>>> installing the overlay first >> >>>> >> >>>> eix wwon't show the contents of not-installed overlays >> >>> >> >>> As it's panto season now - Oh Yes It Will! >> >>> >> >>> eix-update reads installed overlays but eix-remote downloads a list of >> >>> the contents of all layman overlays, giving exactly what Mark wants. >> >>> >> >>> I hadn't even heard of the trauma overlay, let alone installed it, yet >> >>> eix found the ebuild for me. >> >> >> >> well well whaddaya know >> >> >> >> it works ! >> > >> > Humm...so if I would have simply done exactly what Neil suggested I >> > would have seen it without actually installing the overlay? Cool. >> > >> > - Mark >> >> Is this documented anywhere? I would like to see how this works, >> without doing it just in case I mess up. lol >> >> Dale > > > You can't cock it up. If you have eix and layman working (almost everyone here > has that): > > eix-remote -q update > > eix <something> > > tada!!
I was like Dale which is why I didn't try it when Neil suggested it this morning. eix-remote --help says it downloads eix-caches which to someone who doesn't program this stuff sounded like something I couldn't fix myself. - Mark
