The slot for kdelibs-4.1.1 is set in the eclass rather than the ebuild. eix misses this and mis-reports the slot. This is mostly cosmetic, but should be fixed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add kde-testing overlay 2. Update eix 3. eix kdelibs Actual Results: shows slot 0 Expected Results: should show slot 4.1
Please post the output of update-eix.
Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-flat) Reading 100% [1] "desktop-effects" /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects (cache: parse|ebuild*) Reading 100% [2] "java-overlay" /usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay (cache: parse|ebuild*) Reading 100% [3] "zen-overlay" /usr/portage/local/layman/zen-overlay (cache: parse|ebuild*) Reading 100% [4] "kde" /usr/portage/local/layman/kde-testing (cache: parse|ebuild*) Reading 100% [5] "local-mine" /usr/local/portage (cache: parse|ebuild*) Reading 100% Applying masks .. Calculating hash tables .. Writing database file /var/cache/eix .. Database contains 13222 packages in 150 categories.
Sorry, nothing to fix. The default method of obaining ebuild-information is "fast" but somewhat sloppy. But there are other methods you may choose from. I suggest you put OVERLAY_CACHE_METHOD="ebuild" or OVERLAY_CACHE_METHOD="ebuild*" into /etc/eixrc. This way update-eix might be much slower, but should be correct about the slot-information of those ebuilds. You might want to read the eix manpage wrt to OVERLAY_CACHE_METHOD.
*** Bug 238885 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The method parse|ebuild* is not so sloppy. It is just unclear whether an empty SLOT would be admissible data (the portage manpage is not so clear about it). In current eix trunk (>=0.14.0), I changed that an empty SLOT is considered illegal and leads to executing the corresponding ebuild more carefully. The downside is that this _might_ take considerably longer, but in the portage tree I observed no big difference. I change the summary of the bug and leave it open so that people observing a tremendous increase of time now can report here - in this case, I will perhaps add some option to choose between both approaches.
When will eix-0.14.0 be in portage?
(In reply to comment #6) > When will eix-0.14.0 be in portage? You can temporarily use app-portage/eix-9999 which is available in Eaedificāta Repository: http://www.ffta.host.sk/Eaedificata/index.html
Closing since eix-0.14.0 (and even 0.14.1) are in the tree. Feel free to reopen or to post a comment if you have an overlay for which the new approach costs much more time than before.
