etcat problem

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Xerxes83 · Post by **Xerxes83** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:25 pm

Etcat seems to have suddenly stopped working:

megumi shorewall # etcat -u courier-imap
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : (U) Col 1 - Current USE flags ]
[ : (I) Col 2 - Installed With USE flags ]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 677, in ?
main()
File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 673, in main
function(query, matches)
File "/usr/bin/etcat", line 364, in uses
used = p.get_use_vars().split()
AttributeError: Package instance has no attribute 'get_use_vars'

megumi shorewall # emerge --search courier-imap
Searching...
[ Results for search key : courier-imap ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]

* net-mail/courier-imap
Latest version available: 3.0.8
Latest version installed: 3.0.8
Size of downloaded files: 1,673 kB
Homepage: http://www.courier-mta.org/
Description: An IMAP daemon designed specifically for maildirs
License: GPL-2

Etcat has worked before (about a week ago), so I think something is wrong with some of the files on my system. Can anyone please help me track down the problem? I don't think the supplied error is sufficient for a bug report.

Post by **Pythonhead** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:26 pm

You could try upgrading to the latest gentoolkit, but etcat is being deprecated, so they probably won't do anything with your bug report.

You can use something like this instead:

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equery list -i -p -o net-mail/courier-imap

Xerxes83 · Post by **Xerxes83** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:35 pm

The equery tool also very nicely explains the meaning of most of the USE flags (equery uses net-mail/courier-imap). Very nice!

Then I won't submit a bug report and stop using the etcat tool

Thx for your reply!

mcdermottpa · Post by **mcdermottpa** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:17 am

Equery seems to be a better tool (at least more intuitive), Now if features like glsa are just implemented...

rhill · Post by **rhill** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:51 am

boo! bring back etcat!

i don't know why, but i can't stand equery. the only thing i use it for is to find a particular ebuild. equery which foo. for USE stuff i use euse, and everything else is a combination of dep and genlop.

if equery had the versions function that etcat does, then i'd switch. i can't find any other utility that does the same as etcat -v foo.

mcdermottpa · Post by **mcdermottpa** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:05 am

dirtyepic wrote:boo! bring back etcat!

i don't know why, but i can't stand equery. the only thing i use it for is to find a particular ebuild. equery which foo. for USE stuff i use euse, and everything else is a combination of dep and genlop.

if equery had the versions function that etcat does, then i'd switch. i can't find any other utility that does the same as etcat -v foo.

I agree, hopefully many of the features most of us use all the time, just to maintain a Gentoo system, will move from the gentoolkit into Portage

hjnenc · Post by **hjnenc** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:17 am

dirtyepic wrote:i can't find any other utility that does the same as etcat -v foo.

Not exactly the same but close:

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equery list -p foo

rhill · Post by **rhill** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:36 am

hey, that's pretty cool. i like how it doesn't just display package foo but anything containing foo. the only problem is things like..

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root ~ # time etcat -v xmms
[ Results for search key	   : xmms ]
[ Candidate applications found : 3 ]

 Only printing found installed programs.

*  media-sound/xmms :
        [   ] 1.2.8-r4 (0)
        [  I] 1.2.10-r5 (0)
        [M~ ] 1.2.10-r9 (0)

real	0m6.067s
user	0m2.736s
sys	0m0.181s


root ~ # time equery list -p xmms 
[ Searching for package 'xmms' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-imms-1.1 (0)
[I--] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-lyrc-0.3 (0)
[I--] [  ] media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r5 (0)
[I--] [  ] x11-themes/xmms-themes-0.0.3 (0)
 * Portage tree (/usr/portage)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-finespectrum-1.0.1_alpha1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-arts-0.7.1-r1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-find-0.5.2 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-find-0.5.1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-find-0.4.7 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-goom-1.99.4 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-jack-0.9 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-jack-0.11 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-jack-0.10 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-imms-1.0.1 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-imms-1.2a (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-jess-2.9.1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-iris-0.11 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-iris-0.10 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-lirc-1.4 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-midi-0.03 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-null-0.3 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-pipe-0.5.3 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-tfmx-0.5 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-dscope-1.2 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-dscope-1.3.1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-status-plugin-1.0 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-musepack-1.00 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-musepack-1.1_alpha10 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-musepack-1.1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-dspectogram-1.2.1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-dspectogram-1.2 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-fc-0.5.3 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-fc-0.5.4 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-itouch-0.1.2 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-itouch-0.1.2-r1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-alarm-0.3.6 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-alarm-0.3.3 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-alarm-0.3.5 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-extra-0.1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-idcin-0.5 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-kjofol-0.95 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-ladspa-0.7 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-ladspa-1.0 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-ladspa-0.6 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-shell-0.99.3-r3 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-shell-0.99.0-r1 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-smpeg-0.3.5-r1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-xmmsd-0.3 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-mp3cue-0.94 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-mp3cue-0.94-r1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-xmmsmplayer-0.5 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-wakeup-0.15 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-liveice-1.0.0 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-scrobbler-0.3.6 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-sndfile-1.2 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-dflowers-1.2 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-dflowers-1.2.1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-fmradio-1.5 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-gdancer-0.4.5 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-gdancer-0.4.6 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-nebulus-0.5.0 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-nebulus-0.6.0 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-nebulus-0.2.0 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-nebulus-0.3.0 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-realrandom-0.2 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-infinity-0.2 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-infinity-0.5.8 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-infopipe-1.3 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-synaesthesia-0.0.3_rc3 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-libvisual-0.1.6 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-libvisual-0.1.7 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-crystality-0.92 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-wmdiscotux-1.3 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-repeatit-0.0.4 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-crossfade-0.3.4 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-crossfade-0.3.8 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-volnorm-0.4.1-r1 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-volnorm-0.8.1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-volnorm-0.4.1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-liveplugin-0.2.5 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-kde-3.1_beta1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-mad-0.5.6-r1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-mad-0.7 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-nas-0.2-r1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-nsf-0.0.3 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-shn-2.2.8 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-shn-2.2.4 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-shn-2.4.0 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-sid-0.8.0_beta8 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-sid-0.7.4 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-sid-0.8.0_beta10 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-sid-0.7.3 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-spc-0.2.1-r1 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-wma-1.0.3 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-morestate-1.2 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-outpost-0.15 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-cdcover-0.2 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-plugins/xmms-coverviewer-0.1.10 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-coverviewer-0.11 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-dspectral-1.2 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-dspectral-1.2.1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-btexmms-0.5 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-adplug-1.1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-blursk-1.2 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-blursk-1.3 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-plugins/xmms-cdread-0.14a-r2 (0)
[-P-] [M~] media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r9 (0)
[-P-] [  ] media-sound/xmms-1.2.8-r4 (0)

real	1m5.057s
user	0m29.398s
sys	0m0.691s

a very useful tip though, i've aliased it as 'elist' to find packages that i would otherwise have to load packages.gentoo.org to sift through.

instead of whinging i should probably be filing a bug enhancement req.

gentsquash · Post by **gentsquash** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:29 am

dirtyepic wrote:...everything else is a combination of
dep and genlop.

What, please, is "dep" --a cmd?, an argument to a cmd?
OMSystem, `which dep' finds nothing...