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On Oct 3, 2009, at 10:07 AM, hp_sebastian wrote: |
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> On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:42 -0500 Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> |
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> 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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> eix-update adds overlays to the eix-database. If you use eix-sync |
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> instead of emerge --sync, you don't have to run eix-update afterwards. |
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update-eix-remote is an executable, not an option to the eix |
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executable. After running update-eix-remote your normal eix queries |
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will include overlays. |
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HTH, |
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Roy |
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