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From: Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eix, can I trust it at all?
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:45:43
Message-Id: 1136568710.8821.6.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] eix, can I trust it at all? by Petr Kocmid
1 On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 18:18 +0100, Petr Kocmid wrote:
2 > # echo "net-p2p/ktorrent ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
3 > # eix ktorrent
4 > * net-p2p/ktorrent
5 > Available versions: 1.0 1.1_rc1 1.1 (all green==available for install)
6 > Installed: none
7 > Homepage: http://ktorrent.pwsp.net/
8 > Description: A BitTorrent program for KDE.
9 >
10 >
11 > Found 1 matches
12 > # emerge -pv ktorrent
13 >
14 > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
15 >
16 > Calculating dependencies ...done!
17 > [ebuild N ] net-p2p/ktorrent-1.2_rc1 +arts -debug +xinerama 1,411 kB
18 >
19 > The question is, why eix knows nothing about version the emerge would actually
20 > build? Is this bug for eix or I missed something? My portage was synced just
21 > before that.
22
23 eix has it's own Database, and doesn't run of live data.
24
25 eix-sync -- emerge --sync's then updates the eix DB. DO that or emerge
26 --sync && update-eix
27
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