On Monday 15 January 2007 02:36, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I've been taking a look at the script. I wonder why using emerge --sync > > at the beginning and update-eix at the end instead of an eix-sync. > > I want the information returned by eix after the script completes to take > into account the package updates that may occur during the portage or > world updates. I also want those updates to take into account the most > recent portage tree. So, I need a sync operation before the updates and a > eix-update after them. Thus, I can't combine the two operations into a > single eix-sync.
Hmm.. maybe you think eix behaves like esearch. eix always looks in the vdb so whether you run update-eix before or after an upgrade is irrelevant.. -- Bo Andresen
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