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From: Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] eix & esearch problems with portage-2.1_pre6-r3
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:03:44
Message-Id: 200603181103.03894.rumen@qrypto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] eix & esearch problems with portage-2.1_pre6-r3 by Zac Medico
1 Hi Zac,
2 On Saturday 18 March 2006 10:44, Zac Medico wrote:
3 > Rumen Yotov wrote:
4 > > Hi,
5 > > Recently have problems with latest portage-2.1_pre6-r3, specially when
6 > > using eix and now esearch too.
7 > > In the former case (eix) it gives too little packages in the database:
8 > >
9 > > Strange is that this happened just after i emerged qt-3.3.6 (which wanted
10 > > me to rebuild kdelibs), and so i run: "eix kdelibs" getting nothing as
11 > > result. Using "metadata_overlay patch" + FEATURES="... -metadata-transfer
12 > > ...".
13 >
14 > You don't need a patch to use metadata_overlay because it's included in
15 > 2.1_pre6. All you need to do is put "portdbapi.auxdbmodule =
16 > cache.metadata_overlay.database" in /etc/portage/modules and nothing more.
17 > If that's all you've done, then please file a bug for the CacheCorruption
18 > error.
19 Here's my previous:
20 ===
21 ># cat /etc/portage/modules
22 portdbapi.auxdbmodule = cache.metadata_overlay.database
23 ===
24 > > Looked now but couldn't identify any "metadata-patch" (unless integrated)
25 > > but it was on a mail two-three days ago (subj:"kudoos to all" on this
26 > > ML). PS: will try "emerge --metadata".
27 > > Didn't file a Bug as i think it might be some config/other error on my
28 > > side. TIA.Rumen
29 >
30 Yeah, checked with 'qfile', so it's integrated in 2.1_pre6. Great.
31 > Try `rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep` and that might help. Normally, you don't
32 > need to run `emerge --metadata` when you have the metadata_overlay cache
33 > module enabled.
34 >
35 > Zac
36 Will keep you informed, thanks again.
37 Rumen

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