gentoo specific commands

bus_drivr · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Florida

Hi
Thought it might be a good idea to have a list of gentoo specific commands and a brief description of there use.
Please feel free to add yours and there will be others as time goes on.
I'll add some more as I discover/remember them.
bus_drivr

Many of these are from their own manpages. You do read the instructions first don't you. ;-)

YMMV of course. Understand some of this stuff may have more functionality than when the manpage was written. In short if you hose your system running dep-clean- remember I probably did it first ;-)

emerge - I won't bother.

revdep-rebuild - supposedly rebuilds dependencies. YMMV Can't do it recursively (at present?).

emerge-webrsync - retrieves snapshots via http for those who may not be able to use rsync protocol.

qpkg -"is GenToolKit's "query package" tool, using it, you can find packages owning files on your filesystem, check the integrity of installed
packages, and do other queries against installed or uninstalled packages."

dep-clean displays extraneous, missing or extra packages. Extra pack- ages are those in which are not a part of the portage tree
(/usr/portage). It does NOT modify the system in any way.

glsa-check has no manpage at present. It lists/checks for some possible possible security problems. Recent ones anyway.

ewhich is a little tool to find the actual ebuild file for a given
package name. It can use simple package names (like xfree), package names with category (like x11-base/xfree) or DEPEND atoms (like >=x11-base/xfree-4.3.0).

equery has no manpage and I don't have a description for it.

etcat tries to complement the existing portage related tools but geared
specifically for the power user. It enables users and developers to
quickly find out information on particular packages without resorting
to manually poking the portage tree and portage database.

euse is used to set(disable/enable) USE flags /etc/make.conf without
having to edit the file directly. It is also used to get detailed infor-
mation about use flags like description, status of flags(enabled/dis-
abled), type of flag(global/local) etc. It can also be queried for
viewing the current use flag settings in /etc/make.conf,
/etc/make.defaults and environment.

pkg-size has no man page.

pkg-clean - Gentoo: Clean obsolete packages (run at the end of each successful emerge?)

mkebuild - Gentoo: Interactive ebuild generator (hhmmm haven't tried that one yet

)

A beginning anyway.

bus_drivr · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Florida

Hi,
Continuing:

rc-update used to add init scripts to runlevels

opengl-update This utility switch between OpenGL implementations. Currently there are two supported implementations, namely "xfree" and "nvidia", the implementations for XFree86 and the NVidia drivers respectively. (works with "ati" also)

fixpackages (as i understand it)this script rearranges your pre-compiled binaries to fit any changes in the package layout

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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iswm · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 8:21 am Post subject:

ebuild is Gentoo-specific isn't it?

mrmodin · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject:

A little warning about dep-clean. It has crashed the system for me and many others, Don't delete anything that you don't really know what it is.

bus_drivr · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Florida

Hey if you look under my name it says noob

'nuff said?

Ebuild is a gentoo command yes. Thanks. That one seems to live in
/usr/lib/portage/bin the first group was from gentoolkit plus a couple I remembered right off hand.

AFAIK the ones in /usr/lib/portage/bin exist identically on all gentoo systems of the same version. The gentoolkit ones you have to "emerge gentoolkit" in order to have them.

etc-update is for updating configuration files after the emerge has finished updating.

regenworld has no man page but if you hose your "world" file you can recreate one it. Might be useful under other circumstances...

bus_drivr · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Florida

equery is a package query tool. Can/will be able to list files owned by a package check their md5sums and timestamps, display use flags.
equery --help will give some helpful info.

quickpkg # This script tries to quickly create a Gentoo binary package using the
# VDB_PATH/category/pkg/* files ($PATH changee to /var/db/pkg/category?)

env-update - updates environment settings automatically

Duty · Apprentice Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 253

dep-clean is obsolete, you can hose your system in a similar manner using `emerge depclean`

jj11888 · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 36

gensync - nice tool to use rsync for certain folders, currently setup to let you do `gensync bmg-main` and it will sync the breakmygentoo.net packages.

included in gentoolkit-dev btw

MighMoS · Guru Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 416 Location: @ ~

duckyhatezchat · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 77

Is net-setup in live cd gentoo-specific?
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Genone · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 12:30 pm Post subject:

qpkg, etcat, glsa-check, dep-clean, ewhich, emerge-webrsync, pkg-size and pkg-clean will go away in the future, their functionality is or will be integrated into emerge or equery.

Nate_S · Guru Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 414

genlop, while not part of the gentoolkit, is a very nice portage util

emerge genlop
genlop --help #for usage

it can do things like estimate the time of a pretend emerge, parse your log files, and more.