Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help setting up eix!

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 01:31 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Michael Sullivan schreef:
> > I've been reading about eix, and as using emerge Ss takes forever, I
> > decided to try eix.  I emerged it and ran update-eix and tried to search
> > for kde.  Here's my output:
> >
> > camille ~ # update-eix
> > Reading Portage settings ..
> > Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch ..
> > [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: cdb)
> >      Reading 100%
> > [1] /usr/local/portage (cache: none)
> >      Reading 100%
> > Applying masks ..
> > Database contains 0 packages in 145 categories.
> > camille ~ # eix -s kde
> >
> > Found 0 matches
> > camille ~ #
> >
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
>
> I don't know, except for the fact that there's no packages in the eix
> database. But I don't see why that should be happening. This is the
> output you *should* be getting:
>
>  eix kde
> * app-i18n/uim-kdehelper
>      Available versions:  ~0.1.0-r1
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://uim.freedesktop.org/Software/uim-kdehelper
>      Description:         Qt replacement of toolbar, system tray, applet
> and candidate window for UIM library.
>
> * app-pda/synce-kde
>      Available versions:  ~0.6.1 ~0.7.2 ~0.8.0
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://synce.sourceforge.net
>      Description:         Synchronize Windows CE devices with computers
> running GNU/Linux, like MS ActiveSync. - KDE System Tray utility
> (formerly app-pda/rapip)
>
> * dev-embedded/pikdev
>      Available versions:  0.6.6a 0.7.1 0.7.1-r1 ~0.7.1-r2
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://pikdev.free.fr/
>      Description:         Graphical IDE for PIC-based application
> development
>
> * dev-python/pykde
>      Available versions:  ~3.11.1 3.11.3 ~3.12_pre20051013
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pykde/
>      Description:         set of Python bindings for the KDE libs
>
> * dev-util/kdevelop
>      Available versions:  3.1.2 3.2.1-r1 ~3.2.2 ~3.2.3 ~3.2.3-r1 ~3.3.0
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://www.kdevelop.org
>      Description:         Integrated Development Enviroment for Unix,
> supporting KDE/Qt, C/C++ and a many other languages.
>
> * dev-util/kdesvn
>      Available versions:  ~0.6.2 ~0.7.1
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/kdesvn/
>      Description:         KDESvn is a frontend to the subversion vcs.
>
> * games-board/ggz-kde-client
>      Available versions:  ~0.0.9
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://ggz.sourceforge.net/
>      Description:         The kde client for GGZ Gaming Zone
>
> * games-board/ggz-kde-games
>      Available versions:  ~0.0.9
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://ggz.sourceforge.net/
>      Description:         These are the kde versions of the games made
> by GGZ Gaming Zone
>
> * kde-base/kdeprint
>      Available versions:  3.4.1 3.4.2 3.4.3 3.5.0
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://www.kde.org/
>      Description:         KDE printer queue/device manager
>
> * kde-base/kdegraphics
>      Available versions:  3.3.2-r3 3.4.1-r1 ~3.4.1-r3 ~3.4.2-r2 ~3.4.3
> 3.4.3-r2 3.4.3-r3 ~3.5.0 ~3.5.0-r2 ~3.5.0-r3 ~3.5.0-r4
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://www.kde.org/
>      Description:         KDE graphics-related apps
>
> * kde-base/kdepim-meta
>      Available versions:  3.4.1 ~3.4.2 3.4.3 ~3.5.0
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://www.kde.org/
>      Description:         kdepim - merge this to pull in all
> kdepim-derived packages
>
> * kde-base/kdesu
>      Available versions:  3.4.1 3.5.0
>      Installed:           3.4.1 3.5.0
>      Homepage:            http://www.kde.org/
>      Description:         KDE: gui for su(1)
>
> <snip>
>
> [1] /usr/local/portage
>
> Found 96 matches
>
> The  only thing I see is maybe you want to disable that cdb module,
> depending on which version of Portage you're using (the latest stable
> doesn't like it so much). But I don't think that would explain this, and
> honestly I can't think of any configuration or anything that you need to
> do with eix to get any ouput.
>
> Sorry.
> Holly

I deleted /etc/eixrc (which I created earlier today) and ran update-eix
and now I'm seeing output more like I was expecting.  Thanks.

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