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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:35:22
Message-Id: 20090804143515.GB6866@crowfix.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages? by Jacob Todd
1 On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:52:37AM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote:
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3 > It sounds like you're thinking of the eix-diff application that comes with eix.
4 > When using eix-sync, it's run after the sync is complete to update the eix
5 > database; but it can be run by itself. To update a eix database, run 'eix-diff
6 > /var/cache/eix.previous /var/cache/eix' after you run eix-update. It will show
7 > all new ebuilds, what was removed, et cetera.
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9 Might do. I ran both, but eix-diff says
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11 void load_db(const char*, DBHeader*, PackageTree*, PortageSettings*): Can't open the database file '/var/cache/eix.previous' for reading (mode = 'rb')
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13 which I take as a particularly lazy way of telling me the cache hasn't
14 been created or is elsewhere. I'll investigate in a bit -- a quick
15 --help from both programs doesn't show anything obvious. Probably
16 something easy.
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18 Thanks.
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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages? "Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@×××××.es>
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages? Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>