Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eix showing me weird results
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:48:04
Message-Id: 61CD819D-9F31-4D95-8D7B-A5605508A4EA@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: eix showing me weird results by "»Q«"
1 > On Sun, 6 March 2016, at 9:22 pm, »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote:
2 >
3 > I would like to know how the metadata cache gets out of step with the
4 > info in the ebuilds in the first place, how to prevent that, and how to
5 > fix it other than waiting for an eix-sync to fix it.
6
7 I can't answer your question, but AIUI eix-sync is just a wrapper for `emerge --sync && eix-update`.
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9 So it's more useful to determine which of those two commands fixes the problem.
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11 Stroller.