From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HUJAv-00021i-Jl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:01:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2M8xhTr008883; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:59:43 GMT Received: from mtaout3.barak.net.il (mtaout3.barak.net.il [212.150.49.173]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2M8xgpx008878 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:59:43 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([85.64.211.99]) by mtaout3.barak.net.il (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.04 (built Aug 17 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JFA00FVCRNHI500@mtaout3.barak.net.il> for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:59:42 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:59:22 +0200 From: =?utf-8?b?15nXldeR15wg15TXkNeS16g=?= Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick Portage How to In-reply-to: <200703221045.02145.dizzy@roedu.net> To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200703221059.22689.yuval@avramzon.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <46017D53.2060805@ercbroadband.org> <46018135.3070405@ercbroadband.org> <200703221045.02145.dizzy@roedu.net> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 X-Archives-Salt: 9ca06c87-4e62-43ed-919d-388f395c7b76 X-Archives-Hash: c73942634eeb3754c5f07ac00ad971c4 > I also use "epm" (rpm-like interface) and something like epm -q > gentoo-sources (or rpm -qa | grep sources if you want all things containing > sources). Would someone tell me what's better with eix ? > > I would assume it's a faster search algorithm than epm but then again, do I > have to rerun the update db of eix on each database update or it installs > in the portage modules or something to do it automatically ? > I don't know about epm, but it's much faster (and better IMHO) than equery et. al. you can use 'eix-sync' which takes care of syncing your tree AND update the eix database. -- Yuval Hager -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list