[gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays

[Martin Vaeth <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>]

Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org> 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.

> 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).