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- eclean - tool to clean up outdated distfiles and packages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 tools-portage@gentoo.org, or added as a bug assigned to us.
We only accept new contributions if they are written in Bash or Python.