eix-remote update disable useless output

[logrusx]

eix-remote update prints a ton of useless output, is there a way to disable that?

Thanks in advance!

Best Regards,
Georgi

[Banana]

Can you give an example of what you think is useless?

[rab0171610]

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The following options are available:

-k      Keep permissions: Without this option, eix-drop-permissions is used to
        drop permissions immediately to that of EIX_USER
-K      As -k, but cannot be reset with -i
-X      Exclude remote overlays which are also local. See -L/-l
-x      Exclude local overlays which are available remotely. See -L/-l
-L      For -x/-X the "storage" path is found heuristically.
        With -L the path actually used is printed (and eix-remote exits).
        Set LOCAL_LAYMAN or use option -l to override the heuristics.
-l PATH Use PATH as LOCAL_LAYMAN
-a ADDR Use ADDR as remote database address instead of:
        http://gpo.zugaina.org/eix_cache/eix-cache.tbz2
        http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/eix_cache/eix-caches.tbz2
-i      Ignore all previous options (e.g. ignore EIX_REMOTE_OPTS).
-v      Verbose (default)
-H      Suppress status line update
-q      Quiet

Verbose is the default. You might try -q for a quieter experience. Or maybe "eix-remote -Hq update".

[logrusx]

Can you give an example of what you think is useless?

eix-remote update
--2026-02-08 11:13:08-- http://gpo.zugaina.org/eix_cache/eix-cache.tbz2
Resolving gpo.zugaina.org... 176.31.182.181
Connecting to gpo.zugaina.org|176.31.182.181|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7313503 (7.0M) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘eix-cache.tbz2’

eix-cache.tbz2 100%[=================================================================>] 6.97M 1.58MB/s in 5.9s

2026-02-08 11:13:14 (1.19 MB/s) - ‘eix-cache.tbz2’ saved [7313503/7313503]

* Unpacking data
layman/2xsaiko -> 2xsaiko
...
layman/zyrenth -> zyrenth
* 1 file in /var/cache/eix/remote.tar.bz2 contains no overlay
* Output to remote database /var/cache/eix/remote.eix
* Calling eix-update
Reading Portage settings...
Adding virtual overlays from /var/cache/eix/portage.eix...
Building database (/var/cache/eix/remote.eix)...
[0] "gentoo" /var/db/repos/gentoo/ (cache: eix)
Reading Packages...Finished
...
[447] "zyrenth" layman/zyrenth (cache: eix* /tmp/eix-remote.UZrXhW8q/1/zyrenth.eix [0])
Reading Packages...Finished
Applying masks...
Calculating hash tables...
Writing database file /var/cache/eix/remote.eix...
Database contains 112918 packages in 261 categories

Nearly a thousand five hundred lines without any value whatsoever flooding the terminal.

Verbose is the default. You might try -q for a quieter experience. Or maybe "eix-remote -Hq update".

And how do I do that when eix-sync is calling the remote update?

p.s. somebody had advised me to use this in /etc/eix-sync.conf but it didn't make a difference:

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!!export EIX_REMOTE_OPTS=${EIX_REMOTE_OPTS:--q}

Best Regards,
Georgi

[rab0171610]

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Options can be specified in the eix (or environment) variable EIX_REMOTE_OPTS.
This data is evalued, so be aware of security risks.
Moreover, "--" in this variable will exclude further command line options.
The following options are available:
Options can be specified in the eix (or environment) variable EIX_REMOTE_OPTS.
This data is evalued, so be aware of security risks.
Moreover, "--" in this variable will exclude further command line options.
The following options are available:

-k      Keep permissions: Without this option, eix-drop-permissions is used to
        drop permissions immediately to that of EIX_USER
-K      As -k, but cannot be reset with -i
-X      Exclude remote overlays which are also local. See -L/-l
-x      Exclude local overlays which are available remotely. See -L/-l
-L      For -x/-X the "storage" path is found heuristically.
        With -L the path actually used is printed (and eix-remote exits).
        Set LOCAL_LAYMAN or use option -l to override the heuristics.
-l PATH Use PATH as LOCAL_LAYMAN
-a ADDR Use ADDR as remote database address instead of:
        ${addr1}
        ${addr2}
-i      Ignore all previous options (e.g. ignore EIX_REMOTE_OPTS).
-v      Verbose (default)
-H      Suppress status line update
-q      Quiet'

I updated this to include the preceding part that relates to the environment variable EIX_REMOTE_OPTS that you refer to.

[logrusx]

I updated this to include the preceding part that relates to the environment variable EIX_REMOTE_OPTS that you refer to.

I already mentioned this doesn't work. However I found out -q doesn't work at all on the command line as well.

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eix-remote update -q

still produces all this garbage.

Best Regards,
Georgi

[Zucca]

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eix-remote update -q

still produces all this garbage.

Best Regards,
Georgi

I'm not eix user myself, but just maybe

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eix-remote -q update

works...

[logrusx]

I'm not eix user myself, but just maybe

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eix-remote -q update

works...

Nice observation. It looks like it's the case which I consider a bug. However how do I make EIX_REMOTE_OPTS in /etc/eix-sync.conf work?

Best Regards,
Georgi

[Zucca]

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!!export EIX_REMOTE_OPTS=${EIX_REMOTE_OPTS:--q}

Best Regards,
Georgi

I'd try to remove the !!'s.

[logrusx]

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!!export EIX_REMOTE_OPTS=${EIX_REMOTE_OPTS:--q}

Best Regards,
Georgi

I'd try to remove the !!'s.

Obviously this is not bash... At least not a syntax I recognize. It doesn't work.

EDIT: actually this is something eix recognizes. This line was given to me by someone who either developed eix or was very familiar with it. But it still doesn't do what I expected it to do and I got confused it actually did it back then and didn't ask more questions.

EDIT2: I might have actually solved it but I need to wait until the remote cache on zugaina.org updates to see the actual result and I'll report back.

Best Regards,
Georgi

[Zucca]

In shell terms

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export EIX_REMOTE_OPTS=${EIX_REMOTE_OPTS:--q}

is a shorthand version of

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if [ -z "$EIX_REMOTE_OPTS" ]
then
    export EIX_REMOTE_OPTS='-q'
else
    export EIX_REMOTE_OPTS
fi

[logrusx]

In shell terms

I'm not big in shells but this is not exactly shell terms. I'm not sure if this is handled by a shell at all. Maybe only the syntax is similar.

! executes commands

!! executes commands unconditionally.

@ defines hooks

et.c. - eix specific stuff. I found it in man eix. However I don't even know if this is the correct way to do it and the man page is 3k lines. I hoped somebody knew that off the top of their mind.

Since I was unable to make it work that way I realized I could add -q in the hook, but now the remote cache file on the server hasn't changed and I can't test my solution. I don't know how often zugaina updates its cache but I'll try tomorrow and see if eix-sync floods my terminal with the unwanted output when invoking eix-remote.

Best Regards,
Georgi

[logrusx]

Unfortunately this:

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@eix-remote -q fetch1

Didn't work. Still a ton of useless output. I think I'm going to file a bug.

For now I'll manually fetch and update remote cache.

Best Regards,
Georgi