The Problem =========== user@tower ~ $ eix eix -R Can't open the database file /var/cache/eix/remote.eix for reading (mode = 'rb') Did you forget to create it with 'eix-update'? user@tower ~ $ sudo eix-update Password: Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix/portage.eix) .. [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-md5-or-flat) Reading category 159|159 (100%) Finished [1] "user_defined" /usr/local/portage (cache: parse|ebuild*#metadata-md5#metadata-flat#assign) Reading category 159|159 (100%) EMPTY! Applying masks .. Calculating hash tables .. Writing database file /var/cache/eix/portage.eix .. Database contains 16842 packages in 159 categories. user@tower ~ $ ls -l /var/cache/eix/portage.eix -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 6694132 Sep 20 21:12 /var/cache/eix/portage.eix user@tower ~ $ eix eix -R Can't open the database file /var/cache/eix/remote.eix for reading (mode = 'rb') Did you forget to create it with 'eix-update'? System Info =========== user@tower ~ $ uname -a Linux tower 3.11.0-sabayon #1 SMP Fri Sep 6 08:58:12 UTC 2013 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux user@tower ~ $ eix -V eix 0.29.4 (gcc-4.7.3, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.eix eix -R 2.sudo eix-update 3. ls -l /var/cache/eix/portage.eix 4.eix eix -R Actual Results: Can't open the database file /var/cache/eix/remote.eix for reading (mode = 'rb') Did you forget to create it with 'eix-update'? Expected Results: Data returned from "eix -R"
eix-update does not generate remote.eix by default. Use eix-remote to update that file (due to bug 480686 you will probably want to use the zugaine database, currently).
Thanks for the resol. Suggest the error message from eix -R be changed to mention eix-remote instead of eix-update
The error message is improved in git master on BerliOS (>=eix-0.29.5)
