if you run: #etcat <any command> <any string terminated by '-'> i.e. #etcat -v kde- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 1105, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 1101, in main function(query) File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 496, in versions tup = smart_pkgsplit(query) File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 332, in smart_pkgsplit elif ord(c[0]) > 47 and ord(c[0]) < 58: IndexError: string index out of range #emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt encode foomaticdb jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga java X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl gphoto2 3dnow aalib apache2 cdr cscope cups curl directfb dga doc dvb faad fbcon flash gd ggi gif gtk2 guile jikes kerberos imap lcms ldap mcal memlimit mmx mozaccess mozcalendar mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpi mysql offensive parse-clocks ppds samba scanner skey slp sse tcltk tiff v4l vim-with-x wmf wxwindows X509 xchattext xml xml2 xvid"
for me it work well. i have version 0.2.0_pre8 of gentoolkit. mainar root # etcat -v kde- [ Results for search key : kde- ] [ Candidate applications found : 0 ] No packages found. mainar root # etcat -v kde [ Results for search key : kde ] [ Candidate applications found : 6 ] Only printing found installed programs. * kde-base/kde : [ ] 3.1.5 (3.1) [ ] 3.2.0 (3.2) [ ] 3.2.1 (3.2) [ ] 3.2.2 (3.2) [ I] 3.2.3 (3.2) [M~ ] 3.3.0 (3.3) mainar root # mainar root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.26-gentoo-r9) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -pipe -O2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww linguas_it mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
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