On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:56:24 -0500 Preston Hagar wrote: > On 9/6/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > as someone already said emerge eix > > > > then run > > > > update-eix (you need to be root to do that part) > > > > this creates some sort of very quick index to your ebuilds which is MUCH > > faster to search than emerge -s. > > > > then just use > > > > eix searchterm > > ... > > -- > > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Another good script/program to try is esearch. Just "emerge esearch" then do > "eupdatedb" to update the index of ebuilds. Then, the next time you do an > "emerge sync", you can just type "esync" instead and it will update portage > and your esearch database. It also prints out all of the updated packages in > a nice fashion after the sync. With esearch, you can type "esearch > searchterm" to search for packages. From my understanding (I have never > really looked into it), it is basically locate that only searches through > portage. It is one of my favorite gentoo tools and I would highly recommend > it. > > Preston
Yes esearch has its advantages (esync being very handy), but update-eix seems so much faster than eupdatedb that i abandoned esearch. Still, each to their own, <yorkshire accent>I remember the days when men were men and portage was small enough to be searched conveniently with emerge -s|S on an arthritic 486 with 4M RAM. We used to get up int morning, wind generator to charge batteries for computer, update portage via 2400 baud modem, then emerge -s for new packages before writing new software 25 hours a day AND pay tuppence a day for privilege. Tell that to the youth of today and they won't believe you.</yorkshire accent> (of course thats why portage is written in ....... "python") -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
