Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED]eix-test-obsolete

2017-03-27 Thread J. Roeleveld 
On March 27, 2017 9:59:31 AM GMT+02:00, Peter Humphrey  
wrote:
>On Sunday 26 Mar 2017 18:47:50 the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>> On 03/26/2017 06:27 PM, wabe wrote:
>> > Maybe an eix-update will help.
>> 
>> Thank you Wabe, yes that was it. Not the list is much smaller and
>makes
>> sense.
>
>If you use a simple script like mine you won't fall into that again:
>
># cat /usr/local/bin/sync-update
>emerge --sync; echo
>eix-update; echo
>  emerge $1 $2 $3 -avuDU --jobs=24 --load-average=48 --keep-going world
>echo

' eix-sync ' updates the portage tree and eix database in one go along with 
showing a list of changes to the tree.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED]eix-test-obsolete

2017-03-27 Thread Peter Humphrey 
On Sunday 26 Mar 2017 18:47:50 the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 03/26/2017 06:27 PM, wabe wrote:
> > Maybe an eix-update will help.
> 
> Thank you Wabe, yes that was it. Not the list is much smaller and makes
> sense.

If you use a simple script like mine you won't fall into that again:

# cat /usr/local/bin/sync-update
emerge --sync; echo
eix-update; echo
emerge $1 $2 $3 -avuDU --jobs=24 --load-average=48 --keep-going world
echo

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Regards
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED]eix-test-obsolete

2017-03-26 Thread thelma 
On 03/26/2017 06:27 PM, wabe wrote:
> the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> 
>> On 03/26/2017 05:16 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 26/03/2017 23:14, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:  
 I'm in a process of clean-up my packages.
 Running:  eix-test-obsolete

 Shows a lot of valuable information, but I can not decode entries
 in:

 Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked):
 ...
 example
 [?] app-editors/nano (2.6.3@03/25/2017 -> 2.3.1-r2): GNU GPL'd Pico
 clone with more functionality

 I've nano-2.6.3 installed. What does the "-> 2.3.1-r2" indicates?
  
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh come on Thelma, really?
>>>
>>>
>>> Did you even bother to read the eix man page? This is getting
>>> tiresome. Please just stop it, gentoo-user is not your personal
>>> Google clone or a quasi-brain you can tap for any answer without
>>> doing some thinking of your own
>>>
>>> A simple eix nano would have told you everything:
>>>
>>> It's in section "installed packages not in database"
>>> Latest stable nano is 2.6.3. You have 2.3.1-r2  
>>
>> Apology Alan, but this still isn't very clear to me.
>> Yes, I did check with "eix nano" and it showed that I had latest
>> version installed.
>>
>> Even "emerge -Ca nano" showed I had no prior version installed.
>> So am still confused why is it has "-> 2.3.1-r2"
>>
>> I figured it must be a pointer to an older version but since I had a
>> newest version installed why pointer to an older version?
>>
>> man eix only shows "eix-test-obsolete" is equivalent to eix -tTc
> 
> Maybe an eix-update will help.
> 
> --
> Regards
> wabe

Thank you Wabe, yes that was it. Not the list is much smaller and makes
sense.

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Thelma