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On 05/12/2010 12:02 AM, Eduardo Schoedler wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> How many months is it since you've run emerge --sync? :P
>
> Every night! :p

Then you probably missed that you also need to run "eix-update" after
syncing, or else eix will never update its own database. :)

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Eduardo Schoedler
<eschoedler@viavale.com.br> wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> How many months is it since you've run emerge --sync? :P
>
> Every night! :p

I will guess that you have amarok1 in an overlay then perhaps?

On Tuesday 11 May 2010 6:31:27 pm Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 05/12/2010 12:02 AM, Eduardo Schoedler wrote:
> > Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> How many months is it since you've run emerge --sync? :P
> >
> > Every night! :p
>
> Then you probably missed that you also need to run "eix-update" after
> syncing, or else eix will never update its own database. :)
>

you could put something like this in /etc/cron.d/eix-update

#!/bin/bash
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

export EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=""

@daily portage /usr/bin/layman -S
@daily root /usr/bin/eix-sync -q

On Mittwoch 12 Mai 2010, Dan Reidy wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 May 2010 6:31:27 pm Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > On 05/12/2010 12:02 AM, Eduardo Schoedler wrote:
> > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > >> How many months is it since you've run emerge --sync? :P
> > >
> > > Every night! :p
> >
> > Then you probably missed that you also need to run "eix-update" after
> > syncing, or else eix will never update its own database. :)
>
> you could put something like this in /etc/cron.d/eix-update
>
> #!/bin/bash
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> HOME=/
>
> export EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=""
>
> @daily portage /usr/bin/layman -S
> @daily root /usr/bin/eix-sync -q

eix-synx does the layman sync anyway....