[wellylug] emerge --search

[David Antliff]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Jethro Carr wrote:
> I tried eix first, but it had a weird error whilst compiling, so I tried
> esearch.

Pity, eix is excellent.

> 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.

Sounds like something is subtly yet quite wrong with your Gentoo 
profile... :(

-- 
David.