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 DFA461381F3 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 19:05:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89E72E0993; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 19:05:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 60C34E0856 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 19:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4775E33E70D for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 19:05:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.305 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.305 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.303, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PjB2OIJhFcGa for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 19:05:09 +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 5E8DF33BE43 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 19:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UwGkB-0000mf-Bi for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:05:03 +0200 Received: from lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.42.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:05:03 +0200 Received: from vaeth by lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:05:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Martin Vaeth Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 18:39:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <51D99CCF.7020700@asyr.hopto.org> <20130707215820.7ff681bf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <51DA828B.1030404@asyr.hopto.org> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-26 (Linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 02cb5127-65d8-4669-9f19-88bfa5c69b21 X-Archives-Hash: 96b5ca41a2cb6b1a179ee1326e3c1427 Thanasis wrote: > > So in /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc I have set > KEEP_VIRTUALS=true > REMOTE_DEFAULT=1 With the current default setting of separate databases for the local eix cache (normally /var/cache/eix/portage.eix) and for the remote eix cache (/var/cache/eix/remote.eix), KEEP_VIRTUALS=true makes no sense: The purpose of KEEP_VIRTUALS=true was to update the local cache data without changing the remote data with eix-update (if both are in the same file). However, especially if you set REMOTE_DEFAULT you should call eix-remote add1 after every eix-sync so that your local eix cache is copied into the remote eix cache (see the manpage how to do this automatically with eix-sync).