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From: Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange feature in eix
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:13:11
Message-Id: 87irnkps05.fsf@bornier.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange feature in eix by Boris Fersing
1 Le 01 juin à 20:57:49 "Boris Fersing" <kernelsensei@g.o> écrit notamment:
2
3 | 2006/6/1, Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@×××××××.net>:
4 | > Hi all,
5 | >
6 | > Using eix for some time (at least a year now), I discovered today
7 | > (eix-0.5.5) a very strange feature which and in less perfect world than
8 | > gentoo's might perhaps qualify as a bug.
9 | >
10 | > If I type "eix <package>" and the package is unstable (or has unstable
11 | > versions) and appears as such in the gentoo database, I expect to see it
12 | > -for the unstable versions- in eix's output: the man page says so anyway;
13 | > but this happens only if I have not marked the package with "~x86" in *my*
14 | > /etc/portage/package.keywords file. If I mark the package (with "~x86")
15 | > eix tells me :
16 | >
17 | > * app-editors/emacs-cvs
18 | > Available versions: 22.0.50-r1 22.0.50-r2 [M]23.0.0
19 | > Installed: 22.0.50-r2
20 | > Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
21 | > Description: Emacs is the extensible, customizable,
22 | > self-documenting real-time display editor.
23 | >
24 | > and this is a *big lie* (works with any package apparently).
25 | >
26 | > Or is it intended?
27 >
28 | Hi,
29 >
30 | add LOCAL_PORTAGE_CONFIG=false in /etc/eixrc and try again ! (it's not
31 | a bug, it's a feature ! :D)
32 >
33 Thanks Boris for the explanation, I hadn't noticed; not sure this should be the
34 default feature though...
35
36 cheers
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38 Jean
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