On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > How to make eix search an overlay too. > > The manpage for layman says: > > You can search through the ebuilds available in the overlays on > http://overlays.gentoo.org by using "eix". Emerge the package and > run update-eix-remote update. > > But I find no such option in eix or eix --help|grep update > or 'man eix' although I do find eix-remote and eix-layman. > > But not at all clear if either of those can cause eix to search > overlays. > > I don't see any likely use flags to change either at: > emerge -vp eix: > [ebuild R ] app-portage/eix-0.18.0 > USE="bzip2 nls -deprecated -doc -sqlite -tools" 0 kB > > It must be common task for people using overlays... so anyone know how > its done.
Hi, Create the file /etc/eix-sync.conf with this one character in it: * Then you can simply run eix-sync to automatically sync your overlays, main portage tree, and update the EIX cache. Afterward it will show you what is new or has changed. No need to run layman -S or emerge --sync ever again. :) Also, if you have any overlays that don't include metadata, you can add lines like this beneath the asterisk in eix-sync.conf to make it generate cache for them: !egencache --repo=theoverlayname --update At least that's how I do it.
