On 01/19/2015 08:33 AM, Thanasis wrote: > > Can you also try > > > > eix-remote update > > > > and let the command finish, and also note what file it downloads (at the > beginning) and from where, please? > > > > >
Just ran it; it downloads http://gpo.zugaina.org/eix_cache/eix-cache.tbz2. It terminated with an error while writing the database file, something related to overlays not existing or something. The help page (run eix-remote with no command) tells me that `eix-remote update` downloads an eix cache of a bunch of gentoo overlays. Unless you're interested in searching for software in the overlays without having all the overlay portage trees on your machine, I would stick to running a plain `eix-sync`. You could always try removing /var/cache/eix/remote.eix and then run `eix-remote update2` - that one succeeds on my machine. FYI, `eix-sync` never calls any `eix-remote` commands; `eix-sync` runs these three commands in this order: `emerge --sync`, `eix-update`, `eix-diff`. If this command is failing, I would recommend deleting all the files in /var/cache/eix. Alec
