[gentoo-user] about layman and eix search

Roy Wright <roy RemoveThis @wright.org> writes:

> update-eix-remote is an executable, not an option to the eix
> executable. After running update-eix-remote your normal eix queries
> will include overlays.

Ha.. no wonder I didn't find it.

However its not a part of the eix package nor is it visible on
portage. At least

equery files eix|grep remote fails to show it and

`eix eix-remote' fails as well.

On Saturday 03 October 2009 20:20:47 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Roy Wright <roy.RemoveThis@wright.org> writes:
> > update-eix-remote is an executable, not an option to the eix
> > executable. After running update-eix-remote your normal eix queries
> > will include overlays.
>
> Ha.. no wonder I didn't find it.
>
> However its not a part of the eix package nor is it visible on
> portage. At least
>
> equery files eix|grep remote fails to show it and
>
> `eix eix-remote' fails as well.
>

Those files changed names in recent versions of eix. There is no more update-
eix-remote. It's all in the ChangeLog.

--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Harry Putnam <reader.TakeThisOut@newsguy.com> wrote:
> How to make eix search an overlay too.
>
> The manpage for layman says:
>
> You can search through the ebuilds available in the overlays on
> http://overlays.gentoo.org by using "eix". Emerge the package and
> run update-eix-remote update.
>
> But I find no such option in eix or eix --help|grep update
> or 'man eix' although I do find eix-remote and eix-layman.
>
> But not at all clear if either of those can cause eix to search
> overlays.
>
> I don't see any likely use flags to change either at:
> emerge -vp eix:
> [ebuild R ] app-portage/eix-0.18.0
> USE="bzip2 nls -deprecated -doc -sqlite -tools" 0 kB
>
> It must be common task for people using overlays... so anyone know how
> its done.

Hi,

Create the file /etc/eix-sync.conf with this one character in it:
*

Then you can simply run eix-sync to automatically sync your overlays,
main portage tree, and update the EIX cache. Afterward it will show
you what is new or has changed. No need to run layman -S or emerge
--sync ever again.

Also, if you have any overlays that don't include metadata, you can
add lines like this beneath the asterisk in eix-sync.conf to make it
generate cache for them:
!egencache --repo=theoverlayname --update

At least that's how I do it.

On Oct 3, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> On Saturday 03 October 2009 20:20:47 Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Roy Wright <roy DeleteThis @wright.org> writes:
>>> update-eix-remote is an executable, not an option to the eix
>>> executable. After running update-eix-remote your normal eix queries
>>> will include overlays.
>>
>> Ha.. no wonder I didn't find it.
>>
>> However its not a part of the eix package nor is it visible on
>> portage. At least
>>
>> equery files eix|grep remote fails to show it and
>>
>> `eix eix-remote' fails as well.
>>
>
> Those files changed names in recent versions of eix. There is no
> more update-
> eix-remote. It's all in the ChangeLog.
>

The old update-eix-remote would index all available overlays which
made it real handy for finding which overlay you needed. The new eix-
remote seems to only index the overlays you have installed. Am I
missing something?

Also I keep getting this error message, even after explicitly running
eix-update:

# eix-remote update
* Fetching eix-caches.tbz2
--2009-10-03 14:13:07-- http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/eix_cache/eix-caches.tbz2
Resolving dev.gentooexperimental.org... 81.93.240.53
Connecting to dev.gentooexperimental.org|81.93.240.53|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 46 [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `eix-caches.tbz2'

100%
[=
=
=
====================================================================>]
46 --.-K/s in 0s

2009-10-03 14:13:07 (10.7 MB/s) - `eix-caches.tbz2' saved [46/46]

* Unpacking data
Can't open the database file /tmp/eix-remote.5zs73hch/1/* for reading
(mode = 'rb')
Did you forget to create it with 'eix-update'?
* is broken
* Calling eix-update
....


TIA,
Roy

Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

>> It must be common task for people using overlays... so anyone know how
>> its done.
>
> Hi,
>
> Create the file /etc/eix-sync.conf with this one character in it:
> *
>
> Then you can simply run eix-sync to automatically sync your overlays,
> main portage tree, and update the EIX cache. Afterward it will show
> you what is new or has changed. No need to run layman -S or emerge
> --sync ever again.
>
> Also, if you have any overlays that don't include metadata, you can
> add lines like this beneath the asterisk in eix-sync.conf to make it
> generate cache for them:
> !egencache --repo=theoverlayname --update
>
> At least that's how I do it.

Nice...

I do use eix-sync for a good while now... but had not synced since
installing layman... and found the out of date directions posted
earlier. ... I didn't realize eix-sync would synchronize overlays
too... I've never had an overlay before. ... I'm setting up `sunshine'
now ....thanks.