[gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior

[Eric Martin]

On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for
my current arch but stable on some other.  emerge --info reports x86 as
my arch, so I don't know what the problem is.  I don't think it's a huge
problem as it's just an annoyance but I might be missing something.  I
don't know where to start on google / forums so I figured I'd start here.

eix portage produces:

[I] sys-apps/portage
     Available versions:  (*)2.0.51.22-r3 (*)2.1.1-r2 (*)2.1.4.4
~2.1.5.6 ~2.2_rc1 ~2.2_rc5 ~2.2_rc6 {build doc elibc_FreeBSD elibc_glibc
elibc_uclibc epydoc linguas_pl selinux userland_GNU}
     Installed versions:  2.1.4.4(07:40:54 02/17/08)(-build -doc -epydoc
-linguas_pl -selinux)
     Homepage:            http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml
     Description:         Portage is the package management and
distribution system for Gentoo

Here's the first few lines of emerge --info:
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686 Celeron (Coppermine)
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:20:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r14
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"

TIA
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Eric Martin
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