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 1O4gHe-0001Do-T0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:12:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C68FE088D; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.informasoftware.com (mail.informasoftware.com [66.193.169.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C166E088D for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.74] ([192.168.100.74] RDNS failed) by mail.informasoftware.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:11:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4BCF5C0F.4070807@kutulu.org> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:11:59 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion with eix output References: <201004211248.56610.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> In-Reply-To: <201004211248.56610.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Apr 2010 20:11:59.0476 (UTC) FILETIME=[E60DF340:01CAE18E] X-Archives-Salt: 74b383da-e5bb-45f5-a278-a7f3c2608482 X-Archives-Hash: b1a1d63495f2e4a75fd857921d3bfc3d On 4/21/2010 3:48 PM, James Cunning wrote: > I am having some trouble, I think, with my nvidia video driver, and eix > produces some output I cannot decipher from information in the man page: > > jlc64 X11 # eix nvidia-drivers > [D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers > Available versions: [M]71.86.07!s [M]~71.86.09!s 96.43.09!s ~96.43.11!s > 173.14.15!s ~173.14.18!s 180.29!s ~180.60!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk > kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD} > Installed versions: 190.42-r3!s(11:04:43 AM 04/21/2010)(acpi gtk > kernel_linux multilib -custom-cflags) > Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/ > Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries > > The man page goes into great detail how to specify many things, but doesn't > explain in simple terms the format of its default outputs. In particular, I > don't understand what the [D] means, but would appreciate any clues to a more > comprehensible explanation for all its output. I feel your pain. The eix man page is a perfect example of why GNU made the info system (which is otherwise overkill in most cases.) At any rate: eix's output tries to mimic the emerge -v output when possible. In this case, [D] means eix thinks your installed version is higher than the latest unmasked version in the tree, and that you should 'D'owngrade. You could also see 'U', if eix thinks you need to upgrade. You probably need to eix-update after your most recent sync. Use eix-sync instead of emerge --sync if, like me, you tend to forget that step. --Mike