[wellylug] emerge --search

[Jethro Carr]

thanks David,

I tried eix first, but it had a weird error whilst compiling, so I tried
esearch.

It has the same problem. I think the problem is around the ablity to
generate index information.

When I run 'eupdatedb' to update all the package information, it
displays this:

* indexing:
* esearch-index generated in 0 second(s)
* indexed 0 ebuilds
* size of esearch-index: 0 kB

It's like it doesn't know where to look to find the ebuilds, however the
variables in make.conf, make.global, make.profile are fine, and I can
install packages, which means that it must know where it is.



On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 00:24, David Antliff wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Jethro Carr wrote:
> > would anyone be able to tell me how 'emerge --search' works?
> 
> I used to use 'emerge -s' - I assume that's the same thing?
> 
> However I then used 'esearch' for a while, which was far better, but slow 
> to index. Now I use 'eix' and it's brilliant. I recommend checking it out. 
> Not sure if it helps you with your problem tho...
> 
> As for looking at what files it reads, use 'strace -eopen emerge --search 
> ...' as a starting point. You might need to use -f too.
> 
> -- 
> David.
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-- Jethro Carr

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