Re: [gentoo-user] Strange feature in eix

[Boris Fersing]

2006/6/1, Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@×××××××.net>:
> Hi all,
>
> Using eix for some time (at least a year now), I discovered today
> (eix-0.5.5) a very strange feature which and in less perfect world than
> gentoo's might perhaps qualify as a bug.
>
> If I type "eix <package>" and the package is unstable (or has unstable
> versions) and appears as such in the gentoo database, I expect to see it
> -for the unstable versions- in eix's output: the man page says so anyway;
> but this happens only if I have not marked the package with "~x86" in *my*
> /etc/portage/package.keywords file. If I mark the package (with "~x86")
> eix tells me :
>
> * app-editors/emacs-cvs
>      Available versions:  22.0.50-r1 22.0.50-r2 [M]23.0.0
>      Installed:           22.0.50-r2
>      Homepage:            http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
>      Description:         Emacs is the extensible, customizable,
>      self-documenting real-time display editor.
>
> and this is a *big lie* (works with any package apparently).
>
> Or is it intended?

Hi,

add LOCAL_PORTAGE_CONFIG=false in /etc/eixrc and try again ! (it's not
a bug, it's a feature ! :D)

Regards,

Boris.
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