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On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:42 -0500 Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> |
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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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