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Portage

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Table of Contents
  1. files
  2. Portage utilities
  3. Gentoo documentation
  4. See also

files

  • /etc/portarge/.
  • /var/lib/portage/.

Portage utilities

equery
eix

portageq does not have a man page, but you can do:
portageq --help
To find the owner of a file, do:

portageq owners / <filename>
// e.g.:
portageq owners / /usr/bin/python

Gentoo documentation

Portage's main documentation is hosted at gentoo:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage
https://devmanual.gentoo.org/

See also

  • Wiki: Gentoo.
  • Ebuild
    • Eclass
  • Emerge: custom builds
  • FEATURES
  • Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
  • Portage USE flags
  • Portage and software development
  • Portage keywords used in ebuilds
  • Portage maintenance
  • Portage overlays
  • Portage: blocking
  • eix
  • emerge
    • /etc/portage/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges.
    • ERROR: failed (prepare phase) The source directory '${S}' doesn't exist
    • Emerge: How to prevent packages from being upgraded
    • emerge --sync: >>> SERVER OUT OF DATE: rsync://mirror...
  • emerge: downgrade package
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