Bug 614980

Summary:	app-portage/eix-0.32.5-r1: 'category/' no longer lists the category
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Martin Väth <martin>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	proxy-maint, xmw
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michał Górny archtester

2017-04-08 06:21:59 UTC

I'm pretty convinced that in the past I was able to list a category by typing e.g.:

$ eix x11-terms/

However, with the newest version I just get:

$ eix x11-terms/
No matches found
$ eix x11-terms/xfc
No matches found

Comment 1 Martin Väth 2017-04-08 14:04:44 UTC

In DEFAULT_MATCH_ALGORITHM the test to interpret "/" for --begin came after the test to interpret "[:/]" (meant for homepages) for --exact. Thus, e.g.

eix --begin x11-terms/

would work, but the default algorithm (--exact) is not the expected one.

The bug has already been fixed in eix-0.32.6 where the test for --exact has become less aggressive.