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diff --git a/man/egencache.1 b/man/egencache.1 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..087ba2fde --- /dev/null +++ b/man/egencache.1 @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +.TH "EGENCACHE" "1" "March 2009" "Portage 2.2" "Portage" +.SH "NAME" +egencache \- generate metadata cache for ebuild repositories +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.B egencache +.I [options] --update [ATOM]\fR... +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +The egencache program generates metadata cache for ebuild repositories. +.SH "ATOMS" +An optional list of specific package atoms to update. If no package atoms are +specified then all will be updated. See ebuild(5) for the details on package +atom syntax. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.BR "\-\-cache\-dir=CACHE_DIR" +Location of the metadata cache. +.br +Defaults to /var/cache/edb/dep. +.TP +.BR "\-\-config\-root=CONFIG_ROOT" +Location of portage config files. +.br +Defaults to /. +.TP +.BR "\-\-ignore-default-opts" +Causes \fIEGENCACHE_DEFAULT_OPTS\fR to be ignored. +.TP +.BR "\-\-jobs=JOBS" +Specifies the maximum number of ebuild processes to spawn simultaneously. +Also see the related \fB\-\-load\-average\fR option. +.TP +.BR \-\-load\-average=LOAD +Specifies that maximum load allowed when spawning multiple jobs. +.TP +.BR "\-\-rsync" +When used together with the \fB\-\-update\fR options, this enables a workaround +for cases in which the content of a cache entry changes and neither the file +mtime nor size changes, preventing rsync from detecting changes. Such cases are +handled by bumping the mtime on the ebuild (and the corresponding cache entry). +This option should only be needed for distribution via something like +\fBrsync\fR(1), which relies on timestamps and file sizes to detect changes +(see \fBbug 139134\fR). It's not needed with \fBgit\fR(1) since that uses a +more thorough mechanism which allows it to detect changed inode numbers +(described in \fIracy-git.txt\fR in the git technical docs). +.TP +.BR "\-\-update [ATOM] ... " +Update the \fImetadata/cache/\fR directory (generate metadata as necessary). +If no package atoms are specified then all will be updated. +.SH "ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS" +.TP +\fBEGENCACHE_DEFAULT_OPTS\fR +If this variable is set in \fBmake.conf\fR(5) then any options that it +contains will be added to the beginning of the command line on every +invocation. These options will not be added if the +\fB\-\-ignore-default\-opts\fR option is specified. +.SH "REPORTING BUGS" +Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/ +.SH "AUTHORS" +.nf +Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> +.fi +.SH "FILES" +.TP +.B /etc/make.conf +Contains variables. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR emerge (1), +.BR make.conf (5), +.BR portage (5) |