From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ScMDX-0000aN-Ed for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:48:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94C61E0912; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3180BE0829 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaae12 with SMTP id e12so2238723eaa.40 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:44:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=4s7vWNCM5XCvycad3tqjbTDKwg7rLPMIzfQUC5uJW2Q=; b=zukwRaqIaKQeFkLkYxMscRAUstsbRoEIu10YFSAhMKVwAMgn1KFR8PiQW4n2Ph7wXO +KMN/Ejnh3xZc+XuZ+bpO2VQYGYbJ6wz2S+EwSKY0WxqrxmG/yER04HjDZTjSlBzG39p J9MHQAQBWExSX+gvUsYuKnS2LMP9MJQNzQKp9sdD1gBgF8di7lrqbfgDGEi5eNEWdS9H BoPnu3CWPVBQsdUnJ9MEtXBTWya+9Y44H0pvzd/GMNhTNjND+dg6ea6AecGA/qNPMw4K YCeWS0f+VYJUxEXI6ycKSvbpGF7gaDYVgcHWhSbcTS/5rkT2+Hd40CpXuWQ49Dl9/9ZQ p/UQ== Received: by 10.14.37.199 with SMTP id y47mr10438800eea.111.1339011887356; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c13sm2813698eeb.7.2012.06.06.12.44.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:44:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: q-reinitialize script in portage-utils-0.10 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:45:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.2.12-gentoo; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201206061930.59618.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1491892.ClPcDf80X0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201206062045.07399.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4099216c-6536-408f-8077-077b37e6831d X-Archives-Hash: 22acabdc73284acf8a072e730e78e6df --nextPart1491892.ClPcDf80X0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday 06 Jun 2012 20:30:19 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 06/06/12 21:30, Mick wrote: > > Latest stable portage told me this: > > * Messages for package app-portage/portage-utils-0.10: > > =20 > > * /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize has been installed for > > convenience * If you wish for it to be automatically run at the end of > > every --sync: * # chmod +x /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize > > * Normally this should only take a few seconds to run but file systems > > * such as ext3 can take a lot longer. To disable, simply do: > > * # chmod -x /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize > >=20 > > but it did not tell me *why* and I don't understand what "Reinitialize > > ebuild cache" mean. > >=20 > > In case this makes any odds, I am using eix. Do I need the above scrip= t? >=20 > The q tool has it's own database. q-reinitialize updates it. It takes > 0.1 seconds to complete, so you can just activate it and forget about > it. You can also execute it manually to see how fast it is. Thanks Nikos, is this a database to be used by the q tools, or for some oth= er=20 purpose? I am trying to understand if I will be duplicating what eix does. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1491892.ClPcDf80X0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk/Ps0MACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZz+QCggxGJWE4RrJnxnX45xCGMdGzO rYIAn1vQadMQupa2+iUV1xy1gb8KEDzk =1QZa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1491892.ClPcDf80X0--