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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eix && gensync
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 00:06:44
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0605181658i4d7f1cd1kd3463c1402e61915@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] eix && gensync by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 On 5/18/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> wrote:
2 > On Thursday 18 May 2006 23:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 > > On 5/18/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
4 > > > On Thu, 18 May 2006 09:42:31 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
5 > > > > Now my problem is that eix doesn't seem to know about the packages in
6 > > > > the overlay while esearch does. Should it or have I missed some setup
7 > > > > that would make that work? I had assumed this sync thing that required
8 > > > > gensync would do it but it didn't.
9 > [...]
10 > > lightning ~ # update-eix
11 > > Reading Portage settings ..
12 > > Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch ..
13 > > [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: cdb)
14 > > Reading 100%
15 > > [1] /usr/local/portage (cache: none)
16 > > Reading 100%
17 > [...]
18 > > lightning ~ # emerge -pv rt-sources
19 > [...]
20 > > Portage overlays:
21 > > [1] /usr/local/portage
22 > > [2] /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio
23 > [...]
24 >
25 > This is because you followed the instructions from the layman ebuild and
26 > added 'source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf' to /etc/make.conf. eix
27 > unlike portage does not support 'source' yet. The next release of eix will,
28 > however, support this. Until then you need to manually put the contents
29 > of /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf into /etc/make.conf for eix to notice
30 > those overlays.
31 >
32 > --
33 > Bo Andresen
34
35 Thanks very much Bo. Changing make.conf took care of the problem nicely:
36
37 lightning ~ # eix ardour
38 * media-sound/ardour
39 Available versions: ~0.99.2 ~0.99.2[2] ~0.99.3 ~0.99.3[2]
40 Installed: none
41 Homepage: http://ardour.org/
42 Description: multi-track hard disk recording software
43
44 * media-sound/ardour-cvs [2]
45 Available versions: ~6
46 Installed: none
47 Homepage: http://ardour.org/
48 Description: multi-track hard disk recording software
49
50 * media-sound/ardour2-cvs [2]
51 Available versions: ~1
52 Installed: none
53 Homepage: http://ardour.org/
54 Description: multi-track hard disk recording software
55
56 [1] /usr/local/portage
57 [2] /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio
58
59 Found 3 matches
60 lightning ~ #
61
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