From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219CE1381F3 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63DFAE0A5E; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vergina.dyndns.org (cust-218-222.on4.ontelecoms.gr [92.118.218.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169EDE0A53 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:12:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (viper.vergina.dyndns.org [192.168.0.1]) by viper.vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92395333E; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:12:43 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <51DA828B.1030404@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 12:12:43 +0300 From: Thanasis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130628 Thunderbird/17.0.7 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 CC: Daniel Pielmeier Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays References: <51D99CCF.7020700@asyr.hopto.org> <20130707215820.7ff681bf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0fb39923-ce0a-48e8-9c6a-adb4920543aa X-Archives-Hash: 2ae49962064ec26b97c80ff8df3db6eb on 07/08/2013 11:12 AM Daniel Pielmeier wrote the following: > 2013/7/7 Neil Bothwick : >> 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 >> > > A good explaination on how to use eix-remote can be found here [1] and > as usual in the man pages. > > [1] http://klaig.blogspot.de/2013/04/how-to-search-super-quickly-in-all.html > Following the above, I see that the way ti search for remote (not locally installed overlays) is to use the -R option. >From eix (app-portage/eix-0.28.5) man page: -R, --remote Uses the value of EIX_REMOTE1 as cache file name. Use this option if you want to see what eix-remote produced. You can make this option the default by setting REMOTE_DEFAULT=1. So in /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc I have set KEEP_VIRTUALS=true REMOTE_DEFAULT=1 and now when doing a search I get results from all layman overlays (either installed or not). I am not sure whether the KEEP_VIRTUALS setting is needed though, because the man page is *not* clear to me. Besides, in the bugs section of the man page, it says: The previous default KEEP_VIRTUALS=true used to confuse people. However, with the new default, nobody will find out that this feature exists. :(