Gentoolkit
1.
Introduction
What is Gentoolkit?
Gentoo is a unique distribution and presents some complexities that simply
don't exist for other distributions. As Gentoo developers and contributors
discovered some of these complexities, they also wrote tools to help users and
administrators work around them. Many of these tools have been contributed to
the Gentoo project and are included in the package
app-portage/gentoolkit.
Note:
As of now, there are two versions of gentoolkit: app-portage/gentoolkit
and app-portage/gentoolkit-dev. While the former contains administration
scripts, the latter contains scripts specific to help development on Gentoo.
If you are a developer, you can have your scripts included into
gentoolkit-dev by contacting the Gentoolkit maintainer. This document
discusses gentoolkit only.
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Gentoolkit contains a whole bunch of useful tools to help manage your packages
and keep track of what is going on in your system. Most users
-- particularly those who update systems often -- will benefit from
having gentoolkit installed.
Installation
Just as with any Gentoo package, installation is just a simple emerge.
Code Listing 1.1: Getting gentoolkit |
# emerge gentoolkit
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Note:
Many of the tools in gentoolkit reveal important information about your system
or require root privilege. For that reason, some of the programs may only be
executed (or only function properly) if run by a user with root permission.
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Finding Documentation
Any documentation that a program might have (other than man pages) is stored in
/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-[version]/[program-name]/.
2.
equery
Introduction
equery is a tool that displays useful information about the packages on
your system. equery is based on a system of modules.
Every module has a shorthand name. For example equery l gcc is the same
as equery list gcc. equery --help explains global options
and lists all available modules and their shorthand names.
equery --help module will display the help screen for a specific
module. Lastly, man equery provides a detailed explanation of all
available modules and options, and provides useful examples.
Below is a list of features
that work over the majority of modules.
Code Listing 2.1: Examples of Acceptable Input |
$ equery --quiet list gcc #
sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3
$ equery --quiet list sys-devel/gcc #
sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3
$ equery --quiet list '>=sys-devel/gcc-4' #
sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3
$ equery check zilla
!!! No package found matching zilla
$ equery check '*zilla*'
* Checking www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.14 ...
90 out of 90 files passed
$ equery check www-c*/*
* Checking www-client/links-2.2 ...
30 out of 30 files passed
* Checking www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.14 ...
90 out of 90 files passed
$ equery hasuse sse sse2
* Searching for USE flag sse ...
[IP-] [ ] media-libs/flac-1.2.1-r3 (0)
[IP-] [ ] media-libs/speex-1.2_beta3_p2 (0)
* Searching for USE flag sse2 ...
[IP-] [ ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8k (0)
[IP-] [ ] x11-libs/pixman-0.16.0 (0)
$ equery -q list --portage-tree --full-regex '[kr]?flickr.*'
dev-dotnet/flickrnet-bin-2.2
dev-ruby/flickr-1.0.2-r1
dev-ruby/flickr-1.0.2-r2
dev-ruby/rflickr-20060201
media-gfx/kflickr-0.6
[...]
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Note:
Globbing support replaced a number of older options in equery.
For example, to act on all packages in a certain set, use '*'.
To act on all packages in a category, use 'category-name/*'.
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Warning: Don't forget to quote input when using special shell charaters
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Below is a quick introduction to the different equery modules.
Finding the Package That a File Came From with belongs (b)
Code Listing 2.2: Finding the Package that Installed a Given File |
$ equery belongs -e /usr/bin/glxgears
* Searching for /usr/bin/glxgears ...
x11-apps/mesa-progs-7.5.1 (/usr/bin/glxgears)
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belongs can search for files matching a regular expression with the
-f option. The -e option stops searching after it finds a match.
Since no file on your system should be owned by two packages, this is a safe
optimization.
Viewing ChangeLog Entries with changes (c)
changes lets you view ChangeLog entries for a package version or range
of versions. Imagine after an emerge --sync, you
notice Portage is going to be upgraded and want to check what has changed:
Code Listing 2.3: Viewing Gentoo ChangeLog Entries |
$ equery changes portage
*portage-2.1.6.13 (03 May 2009)
03 May 2009; Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> +portage-2.1.6.13.ebuild:
2.1.6.13 bump. This fixes bug #268398 (document econf automatic die)
and bug #267104 (handle insufficient space interaction with userfetch).
Bug #268228 tracks all bugs fixed since 2.1.6.11.
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Verifying Package Integrity with check (k)
Sometimes it is useful to check a package's integrity. equery can
verify MD5 sums as well as timestamps to indicate when a package might
have been corrupted, replaced, or removed.
Code Listing 2.4: Checking Package Integrity |
$ equery check gentoolkit
* Checking app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc7 ...
71 out of 71 files passed
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Listing All Packages Depending on Package X with depends (d)
Ever wonder why a certain package has been installed on your system?
equery can tell which packages list it as a dependency with depends. Include indirect dependencies with the -D
option.
Code Listing 2.5: Looking for Packages Depending on pygtk |
$ equery depends pygtk
* Searching for pygtk ...
app-admin/pessulus-2.24.0 (>=dev-python/pygtk-2.6.0)
app-editors/gedit-2.24.3 (python ? >=dev-python/pygtk-2.12)
dev-libs/libgweather-2.24.3 (python ? >=dev-python/pygtk-2)
dev-python/gnome-python-base-2.22.3 (>=dev-python/pygtk-2.10.3)
dev-python/gnome-python-desktop-base-2.24.1 (>=dev-python/pygtk-2.10.3)
[...]
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Getting Dependency Graphs with depgraph (g)
depgraph is the opposite of depends. You pass it a package, and
it will find the packages it depends on (not that depend on it).
When it finds a dependency, it will recursively search for all of
that package's dependencies. Control how deep the tree gets with
the --depth option.
Code Listing 2.6: Viewing Dependency Graph for cdrtools |
$ equery depgraph mozilla-firefox
* Searching for mozilla-firefox ...
* dependency graph for www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.19:
`-- www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.19
`-- virtual/jre-1.6.0 (virtual/jre) [java]
`-- virtual/jdk-1.6.0 (virtual/jdk-1.6.0*)
`-- dev-java/icedtea6-bin (unable to resolve: package masked or removed)
`-- dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.15
`-- dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.6.0.10 [doc]
`-- app-arch/unzip-6.0-r1
`-- app-arch/bzip2-1.0.5-r1 [bzip2]
`-- sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2
`-- sys-devel/gettext-0.17 [nls]
`-- virtual/libiconv-0 (virtual/libiconv)
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Notice how jre is a direct dependency and jdk is an indirect
dependency if the java USE flag is set.
Listing Files Installed by a Package with files (f)
equery can list all the files installed by an ebuild with the
files command. Try --tree to get an easy to read directory
layout. Use --filter to only find a certain type of file. For example,
to find where exectables were installed, use --filter=cmd, and to
quickly find the configuration file location, try --filter=conf.
Code Listing 2.7: Listing Installed Files in Tree Format |
$ equery files --tree gentoolkit
* Searching for gentoolkit ...
* Contents of app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc7:
/etc
> /eclean
+ distfiles.exclude
+ packages.exclude
> /env.d
+ 99gentoolkit-env
> /revdep-rebuild
+ 99revdep-rebuild
/usr
> /bin
+ eclean
+ eclean-dist -> eclean
+ eclean-pkg -> eclean
+ epkginfo
+ equery
+ eread
+ euse
+ glsa-check
+ revdep-rebuild
> /lib
> /python2.6
> /site-packages
> /gentoolkit
+ gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc7-py2.6.egg-info
+ __init__.py
> /equery
+ __init__.py
+ belongs.py
+ changes.py
+ check.py
+ depends.py
+ depgraph.py
+ files.py
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Looking for Packages that Have a Specific USE Flag with hasuse (h)
You can use hasuse to find out which packages have a given USE flag.
hasuse won't tell you if the flag is enabled, only if the ebuild lists
it as an option. See the EXAMPLES section of hasuse in the
equery man page for more tip on getting that information.
Code Listing 2.8: Searching For Installed Packages that Use the qt3 or qt4 USE Flags |
$ equery hasuse qt3 qt4
* Searching for USE flag qt3 ...
[IP-] [ ] app-crypt/pinentry-0.7.5 (0)
[IP-] [ ] net-dns/avahi-0.6.24-r2 (0)
[IP-] [ ] net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.6.9 (0)
* Searching for USE flag qt4 ...
[IP-] [ ] net-dns/avahi-0.6.24-r2 (0)
[IP-] [ ] net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.6.9 (0)
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Listing Packages with list (l)
list is a simple but powerful module to list packages that are installed,
in the Portage tree or in an overlay.
Code Listing 2.9: Listing Installed Packages with list |
$ equery list '*'
* Searching for * ...
[IP-] [ ] app-admin/eselect-1.2.3 (0)
[IP-] [ ] app-admin/eselect-ctags-1.10 (0)
[IP-] [ ] app-admin/eselect-esd-20060719 (0)
[IP-] [ ] app-admin/eselect-fontconfig-1.0 (0)
[IP-] [ ] app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.8-r1 (0)
[IP-] [ ] app-admin/eselect-python-20090824 (0)
[IP-] [ ] app-admin/eselect-ruby-20081227 (0)
[IP-] [ ] app-admin/eselect-vi-1.1.5 (0)
[IP-] [ ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.05 (0)
[IP-] [ ] app-admin/pessulus-2.24.0 (0)
[IP-] [ ] app-admin/python-updater-0.7 (0)
[IP-] [ ] app-admin/sudo-1.7.2_p1 (0)
[...]
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The standard query will search installed packages for the given package name.
Passing in '*' displays all packages in the set. In the left-most field, we
see that all the above packages are Installed and from the Portage
tree. They're not masked (the second field is blank), and they're all installed
in the default slot (0).
This time we are going to use local options to look for packages in the
Portage tree and overlays.
Code Listing 2.10: Using Local Options with list |
$ equery list -po vim
* Searching for vim ...
[-P-] [ ] app-editors/vim-7.0.235 (0)
[-P-] [ ~] app-editors/vim-7.0.243 (0)
[-P-] [ ] app-editors/vim-7.1.123 (0)
[-P-] [ ~] app-editors/vim-7.1.330 (0)
[-P-] [ ] app-editors/vim-7.2 (0)
[-P-] [ ~] app-editors/vim-7.2.108 (0)
[IP-] [ ] app-editors/vim-7.2.182 (0)
[-P-] [ ~] app-editors/vim-7.2.238 (0)
[-P-] [ ~] app-editors/vim-7.2.264 (0)
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In this example you can see version 7.2.182 is installed and there are no
versions available from an overlay. You can see which versions are keyword
masked by the ~ in the second field.
Viewing Package Metadata with meta (m)
Each package in the Portage tree provides at least some metadata about
its maintainer, herd, etc. Read about Gentoo Metadata.
The amount of useful information depends on how much package maintainers
decide to provide. With no options, meta returns some basic useful
information.
Code Listing 2.11: Getting Package Metadata with meta |
$ equery meta gnucash
* app-office/gnucash
Herd: gnome-office (gnome-office@gentoo.org)
Maintainer: tove@gentoo.org
Torsten Veller
Upstream: None specified
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When the maintainer provides extra information, it can be very useful:
Code Listing 2.12: Getting Long Package Descriptions with meta |
$ equery meta --description emacs
* app-editors/emacs
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor - and more. At its core
is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language
with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:
* Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a wide
variety of file types including plain text, source code, and HTML.
* Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.
* Support for many languages and their scripts, including all the European
"Latin" scripts, Russian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai,
Vietnamese, Lao, Ethiopian, and some Indian scripts.
* Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical customization
interface.
* A large number of extensions that add other functionality, including a
project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and
more. Many of these extensions are distributed with GNU Emacs; others are
available separately.
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Finding Package Sizes with size (s)
Ever been curious to find out how much space a specific package is occupying?
Since a package could have its files over a number of directories, the usual
du -hc might not give you the correct figure. Not to worry, here comes
equery to the rescue!
Code Listing 2.13: Displaying Package Size |
$ equery size openoffice-bin
* app-office/openoffice-bin-3.1.1
Total files : 4624
Total size : 361.38 MiB
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As you can see, size prints the total space used in human-readable
units and also lists the total number of files the package has. To get the
total size in bytes, use --bytes.
Listing Per-Package USE Flags with uses (u)
equery's uses module can provide information about what USE
flags are available for a specific package, and which of those flags is
currently enabled.
Code Listing 2.14: Showing Set and Unset USE Flags |
$ equery uses gst-plugins-meta
* Searching for gst-plugins-meta ...
[ Legend : U - flag is set in make.conf ]
[ : I - package is installed with flag ]
[ Colors : set, unset ]
* Found these USE flags for media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r2:
U I
+ + X : Adds support for X11
- - a52 : Enables support for decoding ATSC A/52 streams used in DVD
+ + alsa : Adds support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture)
- - dvb : Adds support for DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting)
+ + dvd : Adds support for DVDs
+ + esd : Adds support for media-sound/esound (Enlightened Sound Daemon)
+ + ffmpeg : Enable ffmpeg-based audio/video codec support
+ + flac : Adds support for FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec
- - mad : Adds support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli
frontend)
+ + mpeg : Adds libmpeg3 support to various packages
- - mythtv : Support for retrieval from media-tv/mythtv backend
+ + ogg : Adds support for the Ogg container format (commonly used by
Vorbis, Theora and flac)
- - oss : Adds support for OSS (Open Sound System)
+ + theora : Adds support for the Theora Video Compression Codec
+ + vorbis : Adds support for the OggVorbis audio codec
- - xv : Adds in optional support for the Xvideo extension (an X API for
video playback)
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Here, a number of USE flags are enabled in gstreamer's plugin
meta-package, but you can see that there are other USE flags available.
For more information on USE flags, please refer to the USE Flags
chapter of the Gentoo Handbook.
Finding the Ebuild Path with which (w)
which is a simple script to help you quickly find the file path to an
ebuild. If you pass an unversioned package name, which will return the
path to the newest installable ebuild version, in other words, the ebuild
Portage would use if you typed emerge package. Pass in a versioned
package to get the path to that ebuild.
Code Listing 2.15: Displaying the Latest Installable Ebuild Path |
$ equery which gnome
/usr/portage/gnome-base/gnome/gnome-2.26.3.ebuild
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Lastly, if none of the above features of equery have answered your
question, try using which to manually search an ebuild with programs
like cat, less or grep:
Code Listing 2.16: Other Useful Ways to Use which |
$ grep HOMEPAGE $(equery which gentoolkit)
HOMEPAGE="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/tools/index.xml"
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Warning:
Be aware that equery currently changes the format of the output if it is sent
through a pipe. The piped format is intended to be easier to parse by tools, but
you can also turn it off by adding the --no-pipe option. If you write
scripts that employ equery, you should be aware of this.
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3.
euse
Introduction
euse is a tool to see, set and unset USE flags at various places. For
more information on USE flags, please refer to the USE Flags.
Please see euse -h for complete help and all options.
Viewing, Setting and Unsetting USE Flags
The euse -a command reads the current active USE flags and displays
them.
Note:
There are 5 "columns" that euse now uses to show whether a
flag is set/unset and where all the flag has been set. The columns are as
follows -- +/-, set in the Environment, set in make.Conf, set in make.Defaults,
and set in make.Globals. The output looks like [+ECDG].
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Code Listing 3.1: Viewing all active USE flags |
# euse -a
X [+ CD ]
aalib [+ ]
acpi [+ C ]
alsa [+ C ]
apache2 [+ C ]
apm [+ D ]
avi [+ D ]
berkdb [+ D ]
bitmap-fonts [+ D ]
bonobo [+ ]
cdr [+ C ]
crypt [+ CD ]
cscope [+ C ]
cups [+ CD ]
curl [+ ]
emboss [+ D ]
encode [+ D ]
esd [+ ]
fam [+ ]
fbcon [+ C ]
firefox [+ C ]
font-server [+ D ]
foomaticdb [+ D ]
fortran [+ D ]
gd [+ C ]
gdbm [+ D ]
gif [+ CD ]
gimpprint [+ C ]
gnome [+ CD ]
gphoto2 [+ ]
gpm [+ CD ]
gstreamer [+ C ]
gtk [+ D ]
gtkhtml [+ C ]
guile [+ ]
imagemagick [+ ]
imlib [+ CD ]
innodb [+ ]
ipv6 [+ D ]
javascript [+ C ]
jpeg [+ CD ]
kde [+ D ]
ldap [+ ]
libg++ [+ CD ]
libwww [+ CD ]
mad [+ CD ]
mbox [+ C ]
md5sum [+ C ]
mikmod [+ CD ]
mmx [+ C ]
motif [+ CD ]
mp3 [+ ]
mpeg [+ CD ]
mpeg4 [+ C ]
mysql [+ C ]
ncurses [+ CD ]
nls [+ D ]
nvidia [+ C ]
odbc [+ ]
offensive [+ ]
ogg [+ CD ]
opengl [+ CD ]
oss [+ D ]
pam [+ CD ]
pdflib [+ CD ]
perl [+ CD ]
png [+ CD ]
python [+ CD ]
qt [+ D ]
quicktime [+ CD ]
readline [+ CD ]
ruby [+ ]
sdl [+ CD ]
slang [+ D ]
spell [+ CD ]
sse [+ C ]
ssl [+ CD ]
svga [+ CD ]
tcltk [+ C ]
tcpd [+ D ]
tiff [+ C ]
truetype [+ CD ]
usb [+ C ]
vanilla [+ C ]
x86 [+ C ]
xml [+ ]
xosd [+ C ]
xv [+ CD ]
xvid [+ C ]
zlib [+ CD ]
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Similarly you can use the euse -a -g command to only view active global
USE flags. The euse -a -l command does the same for active local USE
flags.-g & -l are suboptions to euse and need an
option before them (like -a) to function correctly.
Code Listing 3.2: Viewing active local USE flags |
# euse -a -l
bitmap-fonts [+ D ]
font-server [+ D ]
fortran [+ D ]
gimpprint [+ C ]
md5sum [+ C ]
mpeg4 [+ C ]
nvidia [+ C ]
offensive [+ ]
truetype [+ CD ]
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We can also use euse to set or unset use flags. The commands used for
this are euse -E flagname (enable a flag) and euse -D flagname
(disable a flag).
Warning:
Do not use the euse -E or euse -D commands by themselves (without
a flag). It will set/unset ALL USE flags in /etc/make.conf. Although a
backup is kept at /etc/make.conf.euse_backup, please be careful
while using euse -E or euse -D.
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Code Listing 3.3: Setting and Unsetting USE flags |
# euse -E 3dfx
/etc/make.conf was modified, a backup copy has been placed at /etc/make.conf.euse_backup
USE="alsa acpi apache2 -arts cups cdr crypt cscope -doc fbcon \
firefox gd gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtkhtml imlib \
innodb -java javascript jpeg libg++ libwww mad mbox md5sum \
mikmod mmx motif mpeg mpeg4 mysql ncurses nvidia \
ogg odbc offensive opengl pam pdflib perl png python \
quicktime readline sdl spell sse ssl svga tcltk tiff truetype usb \
vanilla X xosd xv xvid x86 zlib 3dfx"
# euse -D 3dfx
/etc/make.conf was modified, a backup copy has been placed at /etc/make.conf.euse_backup
USE="alsa acpi apache2 -arts cups cdr crypt cscope -doc fbcon \
firefox gd gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtkhtml imlib \
innodb -java javascript jpeg libg++ libwww mad mbox md5sum \
mikmod mmx motif mpeg mpeg4 mysql ncurses nvidia \
ogg odbc offensive opengl pam pdflib perl png python \
quicktime readline sdl spell sse ssl svga tcltk tiff truetype usb \
vanilla X xosd xv xvid x86 zlib -3dfx"
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Note:
euse does not physically remove the flag from make.conf. It just adds a
- (minus) before the flag to unset it. You may have to manually clean up your
make.conf to avoid unwanted variables.
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4.
Other tools
revdep-rebuild
This tool is Gentoo's Reverse Dependency rebuilder. It will scan your installed
ebuilds to find packages that have become broken as a result of an upgrade of a
package they depend on. It can emerge those packages for you but it can also
happen that a given package does not work anymore with the currently installed
dependencies, in which case you should upgrade the broken package to a more
recent version. revdep-rebuild will pass flags to emerge which lets you use the
--pretend flag to see what is going to be emerged again before you go any
further.
Code Listing 4.1: Running revdep-rebuild in pretend mode |
# revdep-rebuild -p
Checking reverse dependencies...
Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update,
will be recompiled.
Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)
Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)
Checking dynamic linking consistency...
broken /usr/lib/ao/plugins-2/libarts.so (requires libartsc.so.0)
broken /usr/lib/kde3/libkpresenterpart.so (requires libartskde.so.1 libqtmcop.so.1
libsoundserver_idl.so.1 libkmedia2_idl.so.1 libartsflow.so.1 libartsflow_idl.so.1 libmcop.so.1)
broken /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux/fox.so (requires libFOX-1.0.so.0)
broken /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/xineplug_ao_out_arts.so (requires libartsc.so.0)
broken /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/auto/SDL_perl/SDL_perl.so (requires libSDL_gfx.so.0)
broken /usr/lib/libloudmouth-1.so.0.0.0 (requires libgnutls.so.10)
broken /usr/bin/k3b (requires libartskde.so.1 libqtmcop.so.1 libsoundserver_idl.so.1 libkmedia2_idl.so.1
libartsflow.so.1 libartsflow_idl.so.1 libmcop.so.1)
broken /usr/bin/lua (requires libhistory.so.4)
broken /usr/bin/lyx (requires libAiksaurus-1.0.so.0)
broken /usr/bin/luac (requires libhistory.so.4)
broken /usr/bin/avidemux2 (requires libartsc.so.0)
broken /usr/bin/pptout (requires libxml++-0.1.so.11)
broken /usr/bin/xml2ps (requires libxml++-0.1.so.11)
done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)
Assigning files to ebuilds... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds)
Evaluating package order... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)
All prepared. Starting rebuild...
emerge --oneshot --nodeps -p =app-cdr/k3b-0.11.14 =app-office/koffice-1.3.2 =app-office/lyx-1.3.4 \
=app-office/passepartout-0.2 =dev-lang/lua-5.0.2 =dev-ruby/fxruby-1.0.29 =media-libs/libao-0.8.5 \
=media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc5-r3 =media-video/avidemux-2.0.26 =net-libs/loudmouth-0.16
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-0.11.14
[ebuild R ] app-office/koffice-1.3.2
[ebuild R ] app-office/lyx-1.3.4
[ebuild R ] app-office/passepartout-0.2
[ebuild R ] dev-lang/lua-5.0.2
[ebuild R ] dev-ruby/fxruby-1.0.29
[ebuild R ] media-libs/libao-0.8.5
[ebuild R ] media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc5-r3
[ebuild R ] media-video/avidemux-2.0.26
[ebuild R ] net-libs/loudmouth-0.16
Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run revdep-rebuild.
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If you need to rebuild some packages, you may run revdep-rebuild without
the -p flag and the listed packages will be emerged again.
glsa-check
glsa-check is mainly a test tool that keeps track of the various GLSA's
(Gentoo Linux Security Advisory) and will eventually be integrated into
emerge and equery. For more information, please visit the Portage GLSA Integration
Page.
eread
eread is a simple utility to display elog files produced by
>=portage-2.1. You can set the saving of elog files by setting a couple
of variables in /etc/make.conf:
Code Listing 4.2: Enabling elog in /etc/make.conf |
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"
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Note:
This is just one way of saving elog messages. For more information on how
Portage's elog system works, please refer to the appropriate page in the Portage
Handbook.
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Once you've set up elog to your satisfaction, just run eread to view your
log files.
Code Listing 4.3: Using eread |
$ eread
This is a list of portage log items. Choose a number to view that file or type
q to quit.
1) app-portage:gentoolkit-0.2.4_pre2:20070320-000256.log
2) app-portage:gentoolkit-0.2.4_pre2:20070320-000258.log
3) app-portage:gentoolkit-0.2.4_pre2:20070320-000319.log
4) app-portage:gentoolkit-0.2.3:20070320-000408.log
Choice?
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Select a number and the file will be displayed using the paging program
specified in the PAGER environment variable. If PAGER is not set, it will use
less.
After displaying the elog item, you will be prompted if you want to delete the
file.
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