mackal / gentoolkit

[MIRROR] Collection of administration scripts for Gentoo

MOTIVATION

The gentoolkit package contains a collection of useful administration scripts particular to the Gentoo Linux distribution. It contains rough drafts and implementations of features that may in time make it into Portage, or into full-fledged tools in their own right.

CONTENTS

gentoolkit

• ebump - Ebuild revision bumper
• eclean - tool to clean up outdated distfiles and packages
• ekeyword - modify package KEYWORDS
• enalyze - Analyze all installed pkgs or rebuild package.* files
• epkginfo - wrapper to equery: Display metadata about a given package.
• equery - replacement for etcat and qpkg
• eread - script to read portage log items from einfo, ewarn etc.
• eshowkw - Display keywords for specified package(s)
• euse - tool to manage USE flags
• imlate - Displays candidates for keywords for an architecture...
• qpkg - convient package query tool (deprecated)
• revdep-rebuild - scans/fixes broken shared libs and binaries

IMPROVEMENTS

Any suggestions for improvements should be sent to [email protected], or added as a bug assigned to us.

We only accept new contributions if they are written in Bash or Python.