From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ScM09-0007NJ-51 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:34:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A857E0484; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:34:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500A6E08C6 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13EB1B4005 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:31:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.224 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.224 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.215, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UgusCaNljW0h for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:31:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C27A1B4046 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ScLwl-0005ec-EG for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:31:11 +0200 Received: from athedsl-233726.home.otenet.gr ([85.74.232.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:31:11 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-233726.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:31:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: q-reinitialize script in portage-utils-0.10 Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:30:19 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <201206061930.59618.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-233726.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120606 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <201206061930.59618.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ba6d3db5-015a-42b0-a39d-3a2db488b135 X-Archives-Hash: 025b746acc8ad56229c8a7a26472d474 On 06/06/12 21:30, Mick wrote: > Latest stable portage told me this: > > * Messages for package app-portage/portage-utils-0.10: > > * /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize has been installed for convenience > * If you wish for it to be automatically run at the end of every --sync: > * # chmod +x /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize > * Normally this should only take a few seconds to run but file systems > * such as ext3 can take a lot longer. To disable, simply do: > * # chmod -x /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize > > but it did not tell me *why* and I don't understand what "Reinitialize ebuild > cache" mean. > > In case this makes any odds, I am using eix. Do I need the above script? The q tool has it's own database. q-reinitialize updates it. It takes 0.1 seconds to complete, so you can just activate it and forget about it. You can also execute it manually to see how fast it is.