Bug 181259

Summary:	app-portage/eix does not handle "virtual/pkg" correctly
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Mark J. Olah <mjo>
Component:	Third-Party Tools	Assignee:	Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) <genstef>
Status:	VERIFIED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	martin
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mark J. Olah 2007-06-07 23:19:21 UTC

eix-0.9.8 cannot find package strings of the form "virtual/pkg".

For example:
"eix virtual/x11" returns "No matches found."
while "eix -e x11" finds it.

Reproducible: Always




Seems to be broken for all packages in virtual.

Comment 1 Martin Väth 2007-06-08 09:07:51 UTC

This is expected behavior: eix matches by default against the package name (-s). If you want it to match against category/name, you must use option -A: eix -A virtual/x11 finds the package.

Comment 2 Martin Väth 2007-06-08 15:28:23 UTC

My explanation was not complete, since -s is not always the default:
More precisely, the default depends on your search string - here, "^virtual/" is treated differently than other strings with "/", because "^virtual/" is assumed to start a match against PROVIDE (see MATCH_PROVIDE_IF in /etc/eixrc).
So perhaps you just want to define
   MATCH_ORDER='CATEGORY_NAME NAME PROVIDE'
in /etc/eixrc or in your ~/.eixrc

Comment 3 Mark J. Olah 2007-06-08 16:23:42 UTC

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the explanation.  I can see how that could be a useful default.  I took your suggestion and changed my MATCH_ORDER, and now it works the way I like.

-Mark