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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Layman and eix-sync
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:21:16
Message-Id: 4AFC5EB1.6080500@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Layman and eix-sync by James Ausmus
1 James Ausmus wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o
5 > <mailto:billie@g.o>> wrote:
6 >
7 > 2009/11/12 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>>:
8 > >
9 > > I'm wondering if something is set differently here. After
10 > running eix-sync,
11 > > there were updates from the layman part. I got lines like this:
12 > >
13 > >>>> Fetching (15 of 16) kde-base/konq-plugins-3.5.10 from kde-sunset
14 > >>>> Fetching (16 of 16) kde-base/kdeaddons-meta-3.5.10 from
15 > kde-sunset
16 > >
17 > > But also some like this:
18 > >
19 > >>>> Fetching (3 of 16) media-libs/libsdl-1.2.13-r1
20 > >>>> Fetching (5 of 16) sci-calculators/kconvert-1.1-r1
21 > >
22 > > I haven't changed any configs for layman except to add that one
23 > line to
24 > > make.conf that tells it where where the source is. This is odd.
25 > >
26 >
27 > You can edit /etc/eix-sync.conf to sync layman overlays with eix-sync.
28 > I think adding a line with "*" there should be enough, but look up the
29 > eix man page to be sure.
30 >
31 >
32 > That's correct - all you need is a single line with an asterisk on it:
33 >
34 > *
35 >
36 > -James
37 >
38 >
39 >
40 > This way eix-sync does the following emerge --sync && layman -S &&
41 > eix-update.
42 >
43 > --
44 > Daniel Pielmeier
45 >
46 >
47
48 Like this:
49
50 root@smoker ~ # cat /etc/eix-sync.conf
51 *
52 root@smoker ~ #
53
54
55 I synced a bit ago so it may be a day or two before I sync again.
56
57 Thanks much.
58
59 Dale
60
61 :-) :-)