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On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> How to make eix search an overlay too. |
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> The manpage for layman says: |
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> You can search through the ebuilds available in the overlays on |
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> http://overlays.gentoo.org by using "eix". Emerge the package and |
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> run update-eix-remote update. |
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> But I find no such option in eix or eix --help|grep update |
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> or 'man eix' although I do find eix-remote and eix-layman. |
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> But not at all clear if either of those can cause eix to search |
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> overlays. |
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> I don't see any likely use flags to change either at: |
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> emerge -vp eix: |
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> [ebuild R ] app-portage/eix-0.18.0 |
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> USE="bzip2 nls -deprecated -doc -sqlite -tools" 0 kB |
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> It must be common task for people using overlays... so anyone know how |
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> its done. |
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Hi, |
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Create the file /etc/eix-sync.conf with this one character in it: |
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* |
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Then you can simply run eix-sync to automatically sync your overlays, |
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main portage tree, and update the EIX cache. Afterward it will show |
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you what is new or has changed. No need to run layman -S or emerge |
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--sync ever again. :) |
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Also, if you have any overlays that don't include metadata, you can |
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add lines like this beneath the asterisk in eix-sync.conf to make it |
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generate cache for them: |
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!egencache --repo=theoverlayname --update |
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At least that's how I do it. |
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