[gentoo-user] "eix" doesn't find a freshly installed package

[Dr Rainer Woitok]

Greetings,

during my last routine upgrade package "media-video/vlc" installed new
dependency "media-libs/libmpg123". However, after installation "eix"
did not list the new package, while "eix-installed" did:

# eix-update --quiet
# env -i eix | grep -E 'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmpg123'
[I] app-portage/eix
# env -i eix-installed all | grep -E 'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmpg123'
app-portage/eix-0.36.7
media-libs/libmpg123-1.32.3-r1
#

Are there any "eix" gurus out there who can tell me how to trick "eix"
into listing _all_ packages?

Sincerely,
Rainer

[Michael Cook]

Post by Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings,
during my last routine upgrade package "media-video/vlc" installed new
dependency "media-libs/libmpg123". However, after installation "eix"
# eix-update --quiet
# env -i eix | grep -E 'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmpg123'
[I] app-portage/eix
# env -i eix-installed all | grep -E 'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmpg123'
app-portage/eix-0.36.7
media-libs/libmpg123-1.32.3-r1
#
Are there any "eix" gurus out there who can tell me how to trick "eix"
into listing _all_ packages?
Sincerely,
Rainer

Well the package in question is called media-sound/mpg123-base, so
there's that. Also, not sure why you would want to grep the output of
eix like that. eix -# 'app-portage/eix|media-sound/mpg123-base' will
give you very similar output, but there are other output options that
will give other output that might be more desirable for you.

[Michael Cook]

Post by Michael Cook

Post by Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings,
during my last routine upgrade  package "media-video/vlc" installed new
dependency  "media-libs/libmpg123".   However,  after installation "eix"
    # eix-update --quiet
    # env -i eix | grep -E 'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmpg123'
    [I] app-portage/eix
    # env -i eix-installed all | grep -E
'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmpg123'
    app-portage/eix-0.36.7
    media-libs/libmpg123-1.32.3-r1
    #
Are there any "eix" gurus out there  who can tell me  how to trick "eix"
into listing _all_ packages?
Sincerely,
   Rainer

Well the package in question is called media-sound/mpg123-base, so
there's that. Also, not sure why you would want to grep the output of
eix like that. eix -# 'app-portage/eix|media-sound/mpg123-base' will
give you very similar output, but there are other output options that
will give other output that might be more desirable for you.

I do have to follow up on this, the package was renamed, you probably
need to run an update with --changed-deps passed and it will get back
into a good state. eix isn't finding the package because it doesn't
exist anymore.

[Dr Rainer Woitok]

Michael,

Post by Michael Cook
...
I do have to follow up on this, the package was renamed,

Bingo! That's it. Soon after my last routine upgrade which installed
"media-video/vlc" version 3.0.20-r2 and its new dependency "media-libs/
libmpg123" I inadvertently run another "emaint sync" which caused the
"-r2" version of "vlc" not being available any longer and the now avai-
lable version "-r3" with its renamed dependency not yet being installed.

So another upgrade (currently running) will indeed resolve this.

Many thanks :-)

Sincerely,
Rainer

[Arve Barsnes]

Post by Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings,
during my last routine upgrade package "media-video/vlc" installed new
dependency "media-libs/libmpg123". However, after installation "eix"
# eix-update --quiet
# env -i eix | grep -E 'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmpg123'
[I] app-portage/eix
# env -i eix-installed all | grep -E 'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmpg123'
app-portage/eix-0.36.7
media-libs/libmpg123-1.32.3-r1
#
Are there any "eix" gurus out there who can tell me how to trick "eix"
into listing _all_ packages?

I'm no "eix guru", but reading the man page to show me what the '-i'
flag does pretty much explain why it would exclude many packages. You
probably want the capital '-I' version to list installed packages.

Regards,
Arve

[Arve Barsnes]

Post by Arve Barsnes

Post by Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings,
during my last routine upgrade package "media-video/vlc" installed new
dependency "media-libs/libmpg123". However, after installation "eix"
# eix-update --quiet
# env -i eix | grep -E 'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmpg123'
[I] app-portage/eix
# env -i eix-installed all | grep -E 'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmpg123'
app-portage/eix-0.36.7
media-libs/libmpg123-1.32.3-r1
#
Are there any "eix" gurus out there who can tell me how to trick "eix"
into listing _all_ packages?

I'm no "eix guru", but reading the man page to show me what the '-i'
flag does pretty much explain why it would exclude many packages. You
probably want the capital '-I' version to list installed packages.

Right, ignore that, I see the '-i' flag was to 'env'. But running eix
on its own by default only outputs 50 packages, so there's that.

Regards,
Arve

[Dr Rainer Woitok]

Arve,

Post by Arve Barsnes
...
running eix
on its own by default only outputs 50 packages, so there's that.

Not here:

# env -i eix | grep -v : | grep -c /
24900
#

Where do you take this limit from?

Sincerely,
Rainer

[Arve Barsnes]

Post by Dr Rainer Woitok

Post by Arve Barsnes
running eix
on its own by default only outputs 50 packages, so there's that.

Where do you take this limit from?

Running eix in any way that produces more than 50 package results, it
shows this for me:

Only 50 matches displayed on terminal
Set EIX_LIMIT=0 to show all matches

I can only assume that it detects that the output is a pipe and
ignores this limit.

Not going to investigate, as you found your answers :)

Cheers,
Arve