From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FltXb-0001Xj-8V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:13:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k51KBeQc021012; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:11:40 GMT Received: from borrout.bornier.net (lns-bzn-51f-81-56-145-104.adsl.proxad.net [81.56.145.104]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k51Jwo3s022189 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 19:58:50 GMT Received: by borrout.bornier.net (Postfix, from userid 104) id 5BBBAB9F71; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:58:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from boldair (boldair.bornier.net [192.168.0.251]) by borrout.bornier.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BFFFB9E8C for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:58:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Jean Magnan de Bornier To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange feature in eix References: <87r728pvl6.fsf@bornier.net> <97c95c3d0606011157o3c3a8fd0pf1f55a5c898f263@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:58:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <97c95c3d0606011157o3c3a8fd0pf1f55a5c898f263@mail.gmail.com> (Boris Fersing's message of "Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:57:49 +0200") Message-ID: <87irnkps05.fsf@bornier.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on borrout.bornier.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k51Jwo3s022189 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k51KBeQu021012 X-Archives-Salt: c60cf446-a17b-49dc-aaf8-9c302c3df4af X-Archives-Hash: a26ba4bde4fd51929e4eba217667900c Le 01 juin =E0 20:57:49 "Boris Fersing" =E9crit= notamment: | 2006/6/1, Jean Magnan de Bornier : | > Hi all, | > | > Using eix for some time (at least a year now), I discovered today | > (eix-0.5.5) a very strange feature which and in less perfect world th= an | > gentoo's might perhaps qualify as a bug. | > | > If I type "eix " and the package is unstable (or has unstabl= e | > versions) and appears as such in the gentoo database, I expect to see= it | > -for the unstable versions- in eix's output: the man page says so any= way; | > but this happens only if I have not marked the package with "~x86" in= *my* | > /etc/portage/package.keywords file. If I mark the package (with "~x86= ") | > eix tells me : | > | > * app-editors/emacs-cvs | > Available versions: 22.0.50-r1 22.0.50-r2 [M]23.0.0 | > Installed: 22.0.50-r2 | > Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs | > Description: Emacs is the extensible, customizable, | > self-documenting real-time display editor. | > | > and this is a *big lie* (works with any package apparently). | > | > Or is it intended? > | Hi, > | add LOCAL_PORTAGE_CONFIG=3Dfalse in /etc/eixrc and try again ! (it's no= t | a bug, it's a feature ! :D) > Thanks Boris for the explanation, I hadn't noticed; not sure this should = be the default feature though... cheers --=20 Jean=20 --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list