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 6EDE51381F3 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF542E0A97; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:52:37 +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 A1C38E0A82 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:52:36 +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 199FEE8A; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:52:35 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <51DEB8A2.2060600@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:52:34 +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> <51DD0F48.5080707@asyr.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 75838a65-6dc5-4d6b-86ef-284d817cb696 X-Archives-Hash: d872a873f4fd4873e7840d42d20b7439 on 07/11/2013 10:50 AM Martin Vaeth wrote the following: > Thanasis wrote: >> on 07/10/2013 09:38 AM Martin Vaeth wrote the following: >>> >>> This has nothing to do with the necessity to call "eix-remote add" >>> after eix-sync > > With eix-0.29.0 which just entered the tree, eix-sync will > by default do this for you, so you usually do not need to > care about. I have eix-0.29.0 > >> My goal is to be able to query both local and remote data with one >> command. > > Either you use eix -R ... (or eix -Z ...) or, alternatively, > you set REMOTE_DEFAULT=1 (or -2) to avoid typing -R/-Z. > (You have to type -R/-Z then if you want *only* a local query). > >> what would the sequence of commands be for updating > > With >=eix-0.29.0, if you use eix-sync, this will completely > care about updating the local data. > > If you call eix-update manually (e.g. after changing some > local overlay manually) you should call afterwards > eix-remote add1 (and/or eix-remote add2, depending on whether > you use -R or -Z, i.e. depending which remote data you use). > > For updating the remote data you just use as usual > eix-remote update1 (and/or eix-remote update2), > > If you want to do the latter automatically with every eix-sync, > put e.g. the following lines into your /etc/eix-sync.conf: > > @StatusInfo Downloading remote1 > @eix-remote fetch1 > > (Of course, you can replace 1 by 2 and/or add corresponding > lines for 2 to fetch the alternative remote data). > > (In /etc/eix-sync.conf it suffices to call "eix-remote fetch" > because the "eix-remote add" is called automatically > after the call of eix-update). > So in /etc/eix-sync.conf I've set the following 2 lines @StatusInfo Downloading remote1 @eix-remote fetch1 and the following 1 line in /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc REMOTE_DEFAULT=1 (Thanks for your patience Martin)