On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 01:31 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Michael Sullivan schreef: > > I've been reading about eix, and as using emerge Ss takes forever, I > > decided to try eix. I emerged it and ran update-eix and tried to search > > for kde. Here's my output: > > > > camille ~ # update-eix > > Reading Portage settings .. > > Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch .. > > [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: cdb) > > Reading 100% > > [1] /usr/local/portage (cache: none) > > Reading 100% > > Applying masks .. > > Database contains 0 packages in 145 categories. > > camille ~ # eix -s kde > > > > Found 0 matches > > camille ~ # > > > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > I don't know, except for the fact that there's no packages in the eix > database. But I don't see why that should be happening. This is the > output you *should* be getting: > > eix kde > * app-i18n/uim-kdehelper > Available versions: ~0.1.0-r1 > Installed: none > Homepage: http://uim.freedesktop.org/Software/uim-kdehelper > Description: Qt replacement of toolbar, system tray, applet > and candidate window for UIM library. > > * app-pda/synce-kde > Available versions: ~0.6.1 ~0.7.2 ~0.8.0 > Installed: none > Homepage: http://synce.sourceforge.net > Description: Synchronize Windows CE devices with computers > running GNU/Linux, like MS ActiveSync. - KDE System Tray utility > (formerly app-pda/rapip) > > * dev-embedded/pikdev > Available versions: 0.6.6a 0.7.1 0.7.1-r1 ~0.7.1-r2 > Installed: none > Homepage: http://pikdev.free.fr/ > Description: Graphical IDE for PIC-based application > development > > * dev-python/pykde > Available versions: ~3.11.1 3.11.3 ~3.12_pre20051013 > Installed: none > Homepage: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pykde/ > Description: set of Python bindings for the KDE libs > > * dev-util/kdevelop > Available versions: 3.1.2 3.2.1-r1 ~3.2.2 ~3.2.3 ~3.2.3-r1 ~3.3.0 > Installed: none > Homepage: http://www.kdevelop.org > Description: Integrated Development Enviroment for Unix, > supporting KDE/Qt, C/C++ and a many other languages. > > * dev-util/kdesvn > Available versions: ~0.6.2 ~0.7.1 > Installed: none > Homepage: http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/kdesvn/ > Description: KDESvn is a frontend to the subversion vcs. > > * games-board/ggz-kde-client > Available versions: ~0.0.9 > Installed: none > Homepage: http://ggz.sourceforge.net/ > Description: The kde client for GGZ Gaming Zone > > * games-board/ggz-kde-games > Available versions: ~0.0.9 > Installed: none > Homepage: http://ggz.sourceforge.net/ > Description: These are the kde versions of the games made > by GGZ Gaming Zone > > * kde-base/kdeprint > Available versions: 3.4.1 3.4.2 3.4.3 3.5.0 > Installed: none > Homepage: http://www.kde.org/ > Description: KDE printer queue/device manager > > * kde-base/kdegraphics > Available versions: 3.3.2-r3 3.4.1-r1 ~3.4.1-r3 ~3.4.2-r2 ~3.4.3 > 3.4.3-r2 3.4.3-r3 ~3.5.0 ~3.5.0-r2 ~3.5.0-r3 ~3.5.0-r4 > Installed: none > Homepage: http://www.kde.org/ > Description: KDE graphics-related apps > > * kde-base/kdepim-meta > Available versions: 3.4.1 ~3.4.2 3.4.3 ~3.5.0 > Installed: none > Homepage: http://www.kde.org/ > Description: kdepim - merge this to pull in all > kdepim-derived packages > > * kde-base/kdesu > Available versions: 3.4.1 3.5.0 > Installed: 3.4.1 3.5.0 > Homepage: http://www.kde.org/ > Description: KDE: gui for su(1) > > <snip> > > [1] /usr/local/portage > > Found 96 matches > > The only thing I see is maybe you want to disable that cdb module, > depending on which version of Portage you're using (the latest stable > doesn't like it so much). But I don't think that would explain this, and > honestly I can't think of any configuration or anything that you need to > do with eix to get any ouput. > > Sorry. > Holly
I deleted /etc/eixrc (which I created earlier today) and ran update-eix and now I'm seeing output more like I was expecting. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
