> On Sun, 6 March 2016, at 9:22 pm, »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > > I would like to know how the metadata cache gets out of step with the > info in the ebuilds in the first place, how to prevent that, and how to > fix it other than waiting for an eix-sync to fix it.
I can't answer your question, but AIUI eix-sync is just a wrapper for `emerge --sync && eix-update`. So it's more useful to determine which of those two commands fixes the problem. Stroller.
