Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-03-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 06:21:29 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: and with esync all you have to do is: esync and you will rsync+update the easearch db + shows all newupdated ebuilds... alias esync='emerge sync /dev/null eix --update --quiet emerge world -upvD' :-) -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-03-04 Thread Julien Cayzac
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:18:49 +, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alias esync='emerge sync /dev/null eix --update --quiet emerge world -upvD' I would have added --newuse, too... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-03-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:00:55 +0100, Julien Cayzac wrote: alias esync='emerge sync /dev/null eix --update --quiet emerge world -upvD' I would have added --newuse, too... I don't see the point. you only need to use --newuse if you have changed your USE settings, and you would run it manually

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-03-04 Thread Julien Cayzac
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:50:31 +, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see the point. you only need to use --newuse if you have changed your USE settings, and you would run it manually then. If the flags used by a package change, it is because it has been updated, so it would show

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-03-04 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:00:55 +0100, Julien Cayzac wrote: alias esync='emerge sync /dev/null eix --update --quiet emerge world -upvD' I would have added --newuse, too... I don't see the point. you only need to use --newuse if you have changed your USE settings, and you

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-03-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:01:05 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: I don't see the point. you only need to use --newuse if you have changed your USE settings, and you would run it manually then. If the flags used by a package change, it is because it has been updated, so it would show up

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-03-04 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:01:05 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: I don't see the point. you only need to use --newuse if you have changed your USE settings, and you would run it manually then. If the flags used by a package change, it is because it has been updated, so

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-03-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:01:52 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: IUSE are not defined only in ebuils but also in eclass, and a new use flag not implyes a version bump. And the other half of a point, the profile change apply to quite every relase. But you wouldn't change a profile without

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-03-03 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
Neil Bothwick, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:22:03 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Also, eix is newer and ~x86 only, IIRC. It's not only ~x86, it's ~x86, ~amd64, ~alpha, ~ia64, ~ppc and ~sparc. However, as good as eix is, it won't help in this

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 04 March 2005 05:05, Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: emerge esearch eupdatedb (this is the part that is slower than eix) esearch -F net-analyzer Using Ebuild IndeX Version 0.2.1 % eix -A net-analyzer do the same ;-) and with esync all you have to do is: esync and you will

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-27 Thread Ricardo Serrano Salazar
emerge esearch esearch is very fast and you use the same options than emerge to search, you have just to forget emerge sync and using esync or doing eupdatedb periodically -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-27 Thread Scott Jones
emerge eix http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=67849 from this thread, is much faster than esearch IMHO. Scott Jones On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:54:20 +, Ricardo Serrano Salazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerge esearch esearch is very fast and you use the same options

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-27 Thread Andrés Pereira
Ricardo Serrano Salazar wrote: emerge esearch esearch is very fast and you use the same options than emerge to search, you have just to forget emerge sync and using esync or doing eupdatedb periodically -- I'd also recommend eix (app-portage/eix) Cheers, -- Andres Pereira. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:07:19 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: eix is MASKED It is only keyword masked, as testing. That's no reason not to give it a try. -- Neil Bothwick Despite the cost of living it remains popular. pgpCnpOzOAT0u.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Mike Turcotte
In a terminal, just type ls /usr/portage/net-analyzer/ | less This will list all entries of the net-analyzer directory, page by page. Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Bradley Serbu
A great resource for browsing the portage tree online is: gentoo-portage.com Fast searching on descriptions. - Brad Daniel D Jones wrote: Long time Linux user but new to gentoo and trying to get a good handle on emerge. I recently used emerge to install traceroute. During the install, it noted

RE: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # time emerge --searchdesc analyzer Searching... -/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 21: ... real22m48.548s user18m54.880s sys 3m29.307s do an emerge --meta which might help a little. Second, is this the only way to see all of the packages in a specific

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Nick Smith
quote who=Daniel D Jones Long time Linux user but new to gentoo and trying to get a good handle on emerge. I recently used emerge to install traceroute. During the install, it noted that it was installing net-analyzer/traceroute. I wanted to see what other packages were available under

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Matan Peled
Mike Turcotte wrote: In a terminal, just type ls /usr/portage/net-analyzer/ | less Also, `emerge esearch eix` (Choose one, eix is faster) might also help :) -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] ::

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Jason Cooper
Daniel D Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Long time Linux user but new to gentoo and trying to get a good handle on emerge. Long time listener, first time caller? Hello caller :) I recently used emerge to install traceroute. During the install, it noted that it was installing

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 24 February 2005 12:09 pm, Matan Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Turcotte wrote: In a terminal, just type ls /usr/portage/net-analyzer/ | less Also, `emerge esearch eix` (Choose one, eix is faster) might also help :) Also, eix is newer and ~x86 only, IIRC. /Did without eix

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ha scritto: On Thursday 24 February 2005 12:09 pm, Matan Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Turcotte wrote: In a terminal, just type ls /usr/portage/net-analyzer/ | less Also, `emerge esearch eix` (Choose one, eix is faster) might also help :) Also, eix is newer and ~x86

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:22:03 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Also, eix is newer and ~x86 only, IIRC. It's not only ~x86, it's ~x86, ~amd64, ~alpha, ~ia64, ~ppc and ~sparc. However, as good as eix is, it won't help in this case because it cannot search categories. esearch will. emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Marc Ballarin
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:52:00 -0500 Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # time emerge --searchdesc analyzer Searching... -/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 21: ... real22m48.548s user18m54.880s sys 3m29.307s Hello? Almost 23 minutes to search

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:52:00 -0500 Daniel D Jones wrote: Second, is this the only way to see all of the packages in a specific folder? ls /usr/portage/net-analyzer (And is folder the correct term to use here?) Is there a tool or utility which will show all packages, perhaps in a tree

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, start using esync. It will not only do the emrge sync for you, it will update the esearch db at the same time, so, if you do an esearch BLABLUB you will get actual results instatly. And 'esync' is a lot shorter than 'emerge sync' *g* I do not tried eix, but esearch works with esync, so,

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:35:00 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: ls /usr/portage/net-analyzer A number of people have suggested this, but it only shows you the names of the packages. It doesn't tell you anything about them, unlike esearch. -- Neil Bothwick Hm..what's this red button fo|'».'NO CARRIER

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:29:32 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I do not tried eix, but esearch works with esync, so, go that way and searching will be a matter of how fast you are reading... The main difference between eix and esearch is that eix builds the database MUCH faster. eix -u is

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 24 February 2005 03:29 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: start using esync. It will not only do the emrge sync for you, it will update the esearch db at the same time, so, if you do an esearch BLABLUB you will get actual results instatly. And 'esync' is a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Comatose Jones
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:52:00 -0500, Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Long time Linux user but new to gentoo and trying to get a good handle on emerge. I recently used emerge to install traceroute. During the install, it noted that it was installing net-analyzer/traceroute. I wanted

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 02:09, Matan Peled wrote: Mike Turcotte wrote: In a terminal, just type ls /usr/portage/net-analyzer/ | less Also, `emerge esearch eix` (Choose one, eix is faster) might also help :) eix is MASKED -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm)

Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge

2005-02-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:07:19 +0800 Ow Mun Heng wrote: eix is MASKED yeah but it works anyway , 0.41 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list