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eix can access Gentoo portage ebuild information and description very quickly (using a local cache). It can also be used to access information on installed packages, local settings, and local and external overlays, and informs about changes in the tree
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allow eix-installed to ouput repo #73

Closed ostroffjh closed 4 years ago

ostroffjh commented 4 years ago

The eix cache obviously includes repo information, and in my case "eix-installed all" and "eix-installed repo" output identical lists. I'd love to be able to have that output also include the repo. My intent is to be able to find which packages I have installed from any particular overlay I'm using. Sorry if I just missed some existing option, or if there is another easy way to get that info.

vaeth commented 4 years ago

The purpose of eix-installed is to output some information which is relevant for the functioning of eix. It seems what you want is an ordinary eix query. Something like

eix --installed-from-overlay "OVERLAY" -c

(where of course OVERLAY has to be replaced by the appropriate overlay label), or, if you also want to see the versions installed from the overlay only:

A='{overlayvername=OVERLAY}<category>/<name>-<version>\n{}' eix --format '<installedversions:A>' --pure-packages

ostroffjh commented 4 years ago

Thanks - it's not what I was thinking about, but does end up being better. To clarify, I wanted to see ::overlay on each output line from eix-installed. However, as I was then just going to filter by grepping for each overlay, the end result is the same as from your suggestion - with the added advantage for me of showing the version, install timestamp, and description (and I can easily enough craft a filter to only show select pieces of that.)

Another possible future enhancement request (let me know if I should bother to file separately) would be for regular eix output to use [overlay] instead of [1] and having to look at the bottom of the (possibly long) list to see which overlay is [1].

One curiosity - if I do "eix --installed-from-overlay local -c" all lines have [2] but at the bottom is [1] "dotnet" and [2] "local". Is that just because some of those packages also have versions in ::dotnet?

vaeth commented 4 years ago

Again, eix-installed is only a simple shell-script for a particular purpose and is not meant as a general search utility. It will not be extended.

For the numbers, see OVERLAYS_LIST in the manpage of eix.

To see the output of overlays as names instead of numbers, set e.g.

OVERLAYVER=':<overlayvername>'

in the environment or eixrc.

ostroffjh commented 4 years ago

Thanks. I think that last bit is what I've been missing.