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 EDCFA1381F3 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91442E0991; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:37:47 +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 58A95E0888 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:37:46 +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 70CED6A; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:37:44 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <51DD0F48.5080707@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:37:44 +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: Martin Vaeth Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays References: <51D99CCF.7020700@asyr.hopto.org> <20130707215820.7ff681bf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <51DA828B.1030404@asyr.hopto.org> <51DBD7AA.6010105@asyr.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a3e283f8-1e81-43c5-b09f-2e3ff335ef7b X-Archives-Hash: f98d0cfacf14c37a57b0fe30b3952895 on 07/10/2013 09:38 AM Martin Vaeth wrote the following: > Thanasis wrote: >> >> So, if I understand correctly, I _don't_ need any settings, and I should >> remove both KEEP_VIRTUALS and REMOTE_DEFAULT, and just use the -R option > > You don't need KEEP_VIRTUALS. > Whether you prefer REMOTE_DEFAULT or not is up to you. > > This has nothing to do with the necessity to call "eix-remote add" > after eix-sync: Otherwise your local portage tree will not get > "pushed" to the remote database /var/cache/eix/remote.eix > > If you do not use REMOTE_DEFAULT, it is only less likely > that you will notice this since you will then see the outdated > local data only if you use -R ;) > Martin, I appreciate your help, but I am still confused about the whole thing. My goal is to be able to query both local and remote data with one command. To this end, what should the simplest configuration settings be, and in relation to those settings, what would the sequence of commands be for updating and then querying?