Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 08/07/2013 09:56, Thanasis wrote:
> on 07/07/2013 11:58 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following:
>> On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search
>>> locally *all* layman overlays.
>>> What commands and settings should I use?
>>
>> LOCAL_LAYMAN=/path/to/layman/storage eix-remote -q update
>>
>>
> 
> I don't have a local overlay, and the default path for layman overlays
> is /var/lib/layman/<overlay>, so I guess I don't have to set the
> LOCAL_LAYMAN variable, do I?
> 
> The problem is that after updating (by running the command eix-remote
> update). I still don't get the results expected when doing a search, eg:
> 
>  # eix -l games-engines/spring
> No matches found.
> 
> whereas it should list that there is a match in the sabayon (layman)
> overlay (though not installed) like:
> 
> spring-88.0 ~amd64 ~x86
> 
> because, at least, the above is what I get by using the
> http://gpo.zugaina.org/ search at
> http://gpo.zugaina.org/games-engines/spring
> 
> So, I guess, I must be missing something in my eix configuration, don't
> I? Besides, under /etc I only have /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc which is the
> default (all lines in it are comments).
> 


You  are trying to do something the software does not support.

eix will index your *installed* overlays, not all possible overlays that
could be out there. There is no way I know of to do that, and even if
there was a way, it would be a rather dumb idea.

That's what Google is for.



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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com