CORRECTION - Problem with eix-REMOTE update... WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with eix-update

[Tanstaafl]

On 2012-04-16 2:38 PM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I haven't searched layman for packages in a long time (actually had to
> google how to do it), and am getting an error I can't seem to solve...
>
> problems arised with cachefile _var_lib_layman_zugaina.eix
> * Calling eix-update...
> * could not read all eix cachefiles of
> /tmp/eix-remote.dhR5mKNK/eix-caches.tbz2
>
> Then finally:
>
> Database contains 16219 packages in 155 categories.
> * could not read all eix cachefiles of
> /tmp/eix-remote.w473Rccs/eix-caches.tbz2
>
> Probably your eix cachefile was *not* updated successfully.
> Unless the above messages suggest another cause or you specified a
> wrong filename, the most likely cause of this is that the server uses
> another eix version than you or produced broken data. Please inspect
> /tmp/eix-remote.w473Rccs/eix-caches.tbz2
> whether this is a valid *.tar.bz2 archive containing eix cachefiles
> (if it has already been deleted, download it using fetch).
> If this is not the case (but was freshly downloaded), please report a bug.
> Note that the archive is *not* broken if only the cachefile format
> versions differ: In that case only report a bug if the eix cachefile
> format versions in the downloaded file are *older* than that of the most
> current ~x86 eix version in the portage tree (but first retry after
> several days before reporting such a bug to give the server maintainers
> a chance to upgrade after a version bump of eix).
> Conversely, if the downloaded versions are even newer than that
> supported by your eix, you will have to upgrade to the most current ~x86
> version of eix to use eix-remote: This inconvenience cannot be avoided
> and is not a bug!
>
> Not sure what to do here or how things got hosed...
>