Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: hp_sebastian <hp_sebastian@×××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] about layman and eix search
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:08:06
Message-Id: 20091003170756.3655056f@ventiloplattform.homelinux.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] about layman and eix search by Harry Putnam
1 On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:42:42 -0500 Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
2 wrote:
3 > How to make eix search an overlay too.
4 >
5 > The manpage for layman says:
6 >
7 > You can search through the ebuilds available in the overlays on
8 > http://overlays.gentoo.org by using "eix". Emerge the package and
9 > run update-eix-remote update.
10 >
11 > But I find no such option in eix or eix --help|grep update
12 > or 'man eix' although I do find eix-remote and eix-layman.
13
14 eix-update adds overlays to the eix-database. If you use eix-sync
15 instead of emerge --sync, you don't have to run eix-update afterwards.
16
17 > [...]

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Re: [gentoo-user] about layman and eix search Roy Wright <roy@××××××.org>