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.TH "PORTAGE" "5" "Nov 2010" "Portage VERSION" "Portage"
.SH NAME
portage \- the heart of Gentoo
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
The current portage code uses many different configuration files, most of which
are unknown to users and normal developers. Here we will try to collect all
the odds and ends so as to help users more effectively utilize portage. This
is a reference only for files which do not already have a man page.
All files in the make.profile directory may be tweaked via parent profiles
when using cascading profiles. For more info, please see
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/docs/cascading-profiles.xml
.IP Note:
If you are looking for information on how to emerge something, please see
.BR emerge (1).
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.TP
.BR /etc/
.nf
.BR make.conf (5)
.fi
.TP
\fB/etc/make.profile/\fR or \fB/etc/portage/make.profile/\fR
site\-specific overrides go in \fB/etc/portage/profile/\fR
.nf
deprecated
eapi
make.defaults
packages
packages.build
package.accept_keywords
package.keywords
package.mask
package.provided
package.unmask
package.use
package.use.force
package.use.mask
package.use.unsatisfiable
parent
profile.bashrc
use.force
use.mask
use.unsatisfiable
virtuals
.fi
.TP
.BR /etc/portage/
.nf
bashrc
categories
color.map
make.conf
mirrors
modules
package.accept_keywords
package.env
package.keywords
package.license
package.mask
package.properties
package.unmask
package.use
repos.conf
.fi
.TP
.BR /etc/portage/env/
package-specific bashrc files
.TP
.BR /etc/portage/profile/
site-specific overrides of \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR
.TP
.BR /usr/portage/metadata/
.nf
layout.conf
.fi
.TP
.BR /usr/portage/profiles/
.nf
arch.list
categories
info_pkgs
info_vars
license_groups
package.mask
profiles.desc
repo_name
thirdpartymirrors
use.desc
use.local.desc
.fi
.TP
.BR /usr/share/portage/config/
.nf
make.globals
.fi
.TP
.BR /var/cache/edb/
misc internal cache files
.TP
.BR /var/db/pkg/
database to track installed packages
.TP
.BR /var/lib/portage/
.nf
config
world
.fi
.SH "GLOSSARY"
In the following sections, some terminology may be foreign to you or used
with meaning specific to Portage. Please see the referenced manpages for
more detailed explanations.
.RS
.TP
.B DEPEND atom
An atom is either of the form category/package or consists of an operator
followed by category/package followed by a hyphen and a version specification.
An atom might be prefixed by a slot specification.
The extended atom syntax allows atoms of the form category/package, where an
arbitrary number of characters has been replaced by a '*'. An extended atom may contain
more than one '*', but not two next to each other. The extend atom syntax is only
available in user configuration files and for some command line options.
.br
More reading:
.BR ebuild (5)
.TP
.B KEYWORD
Each architecture has a unique KEYWORD.
.br
More reading:
.BR ebuild (5)
.TP
.B virtual
A DEPEND atom that is part of the "virtual" category. They are used
when different packages can satisfy a dependency and only one of them is
needed.
.br
More reading:
.BR ebuild (5)
.RE
.SH "SPECIFIC FILE DESCRIPTIONS"
.TP
.BR /etc/
.RS
.TP
.BR make.conf
The global custom settings for Portage. See \fBmake.conf\fR(5).
.RE
.TP
\fB/etc/make.profile/\fR or \fB/etc/portage/make.profile/\fR
This is usually just a symlink to the correct profile in
\fB/usr/portage/profiles/\fR. Since it is part of the portage tree, it
may easily be updated/regenerated by running `emerge \-\-sync`. It defines
what a profile is (usually arch specific stuff). If you need a custom
profile, then you should make your own \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR
directory and populate it. However, if you just wish to override some
settings, use \fB/etc/portage/profile/\fR (it supports all of the same file
types that \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR does, except parent). Do NOT edit the
settings in \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR because they WILL be lost with the next
`emerge \-\-sync`. If both \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR and
\fB/etc/portage/make.profile/\fR exist, then \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR
will be preferred.
Any file in this directory, directories of other profiles or top-level
"profiles" directory that begins with "package." or "use." can be more than
just a flat file. If it is a directory, then all the files in that directory
will be sorted in ascending alphabetical order by file name and summed together
as if it were a single file. Note that this behavior is only supported since
portage-2.1.6.7, and it is not included in PMS at this time.
.I Example:
.nf
${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.mask/removals
${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.mask/testing
.fi
.RS
.TP
.BR deprecated
The existence of this file marks a profile as deprecated, meaning it is
not supported by Gentoo anymore. The first line must be the profile to which
users are encouraged to upgrade, optionally followed by some instructions
explaining how they can upgrade.
.I Example:
.nf
default-linux/x86/2005.0
# emerge -n '>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51'
# rm -f /etc/make.profile
# ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/alpha/2005.0 /etc/make.profile
.fi
.TP
.BR eapi
The first line of this file specifies the \fBEAPI\fR to which files in the
same directory conform. See \fBebuild\fR(5) for information about \fBEAPI\fR
and related features.
.TP
.BR make.defaults
The profile default settings for Portage. The general format is described
in \fBmake.conf\fR(5). The \fImake.defaults\fR for your profile defines a
few specific variables too:
.PD 0
.RS
.TP
.BR ARCH
Architecture type (x86/ppc/hppa/etc...).
.TP
.B USERLAND = \fI"GNU"\fR
Support BSD/cygwin/etc...
.TP
.B ELIBC = \fI"glibc"\fR
Support uClibc/BSD libc/etc...
.TP
.B PROFILE_ONLY_VARIABLES = \fI"ARCH"\fR
Prevent critical variables from being changed by the user in make.conf
or the env.
.TP
.BR PROFILE_ARCH
Distinguish machines classes that have the same \fBARCH\fR. All sparc
machines have ARCH=sparc but set this to either 'sparc32' or 'sparc64'.
.TP
.BR STAGE1_USE
Special USE flags which may be needed when bootstrapping from stage1 to stage2.
.RE
.PD 1
.TP
.BR packages
Provides the list of packages that compose the special \fIsystem\fR set.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line
\- packages to be added to the system set begin with a *
.fi
.I Note:
In a cascading profile setup, you can remove packages in children
profiles which were added by parent profiles by prefixing the atom with
a '\-'.
.I Example:
.nf
# i am a comment !
# pull in a version of glibc less than 2.3
*<sys\-libs/glibc\-2.3
# pull in any version of bash
*app\-shells/bash
# pull in a version of readline earlier than 4.2
*<sys\-libs/readline\-4.2
.fi
.TP
.BR packages.build
A list of packages (one per line) that make up a stage1 tarball. Really only
useful for stage builders.
.TP
.BR package.provided
A list of packages (one per line) that portage should assume have been
provided. Useful for porting to non-Linux systems. Basically, it's a
list that replaces the \fBemerge \-\-inject\fR syntax.
For example, if you manage your own copy of a 2.6 kernel, then you can
tell portage that 'sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.7' is already taken
care of and it should get off your back about it.
Portage will not attempt to update a package that is listed here unless
another package explicitly requires a version that is newer than what
has been listed. Dependencies that are satisfied by package.provided
entries may cause installed packages satisfying equivalent dependencies
to be removed by \fBemerge\fR(1) \fB\-\-depclean\fR actions (see the
\fBACTIONS\fR section of the \fBemerge\fR(1) man page for more information).
Virtual packages (virtual/*) should not be specified in package.provided.
Depending on the type of virtual, it may be necessary to add an entry to the
virtuals file and/or add a package that satisfies a virtual to
package.provided.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line
\- relational operators are not allowed
\- must include a version
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
# you take care of the kernel
sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.7
# you installed your own special copy of QT
x11-libs/qt-3.3.0
# you have modular X but packages want monolithic
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8
.fi
.TP
.BR package.use.force
Per\-package USE flag forcing.
.I Note:
In a cascading profile setup, you can remove USE flags in children
profiles which were added by parent profiles by prefixing the flag with
a '\-'.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line with space-delimited USE flags
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
# force docs for GTK 2.x
=x11\-libs/gtk+\-2* doc
# unforce mysql support for QT
x11\-libs/qt \-mysql
.fi
.TP
.BR package.use.mask
Per\-package USE flag masks.
.I Note:
In a cascading profile setup, you can remove USE flags in children
profiles which were added by parent profiles by prefixing the flag with
a '\-'.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line with space-delimited USE flags
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
# mask docs for GTK 2.x
=x11\-libs/gtk+\-2* doc
# unmask mysql support for QT
x11\-libs/qt \-mysql
.fi
.TP
.BR package.use.unsatisfiable
Per\-package marking of USE flags as potentially unsatisfiable.
.I Note:
In a cascading profile setup, you can remove USE flags in children
profiles which were added by parent profiles by prefixing the flag with
a '\-'.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line with space-delimited USE flags
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
# KDE is unstable on this architecture
dev-vcs/subversion kde
.fi
.TP
.BR parent
This contains a path to the parent profile. It may be either relative or
absolute. The paths will be relative to the location of the profile. Most
commonly this file contains '..' to indicate the directory above. Utilized
only in cascading profiles.
.TP
.BR profile.bashrc
If needed, this file can be used to set up a special environment for ebuilds,
different from the standard root environment. The syntax is the same as for
any other bash script.
.TP
.BR use.force
Some USE flags don't make sense to disable under certain conditions. Here we
list forced flags.
.I Note:
In a cascading profile setup, you can remove USE flags in children
profiles which were added by parent profiles by prefixing the flag with
a '\-'.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one USE flag per line
.fi
.TP
.BR use.mask
Some USE flags don't make sense on some archs (for example altivec on
non\-ppc or mmx on non\-x86), or haven't yet been tested. Here we list
the masked ones.
.I Note:
In a cascading profile setup, you can remove USE flags in children
profiles which were added by parent profiles by prefixing the flag with
a '\-'.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one USE flag per line
.fi
.TP
.BR use.unsatisfiable
Some USE flags enable optional dependencies, which are allowed to be
unsatisfiable in some configurations. This is useful for stable packages,
which have optional dependencies on unstable packages.
.I Note:
In a cascading profile setup, you can remove USE flags in children
profiles which were added by parent profiles by prefixing the flag with
a '\-'.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one USE flag per line
.fi
.TP
.BR virtuals
This controls what packages will provide a virtual by default. For example,
if a package needs to send e\-mail, it will need virtual/mta. In the absence
of a package that provides virtual/mta (like qmail, sendmail, postfix, etc...),
portage will look here to see what package to use. In this case, Gentoo uses
net\-mail/ssmtp as the default (as defined in the virtuals file) because it's
the package that does the very bare minimum to send e\-mail.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one virtual and DEPEND atom base pair per line
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
# use net\-mail/ssmtp as the default mta
virtual/mta net\-mail/ssmtp
# use app\-dicts/aspell\-en as the default dictionary
virtual/aspell\-dict app\-dicts/aspell\-en
.fi
.RE
.TP
.BR /etc/portage/
Any file in this directory that begins with "package." can be more than just a
flat file. If it is a directory, then all the files in that directory will be
sorted in ascending alphabetical order by file name and summed together as if
it were a single file.
.I Example:
.nf
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/common
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/e17
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/kde
.fi
.RS
.TP
.BR bashrc
If needed, this file can be used to set up a special environment for ebuilds,
different from the standard root environment. The syntax is the same as for
any other bash script.
Additional package-specific bashrc files can be created in /etc/portage/env.
.TP
.BR categories
A simple list of valid categories that may be used in /usr/portage,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY, and PKGDIR (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)). This allows for custom
categories to be created.
.I Format:
.nf
\- one category per line
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
app\-hackers
media\-other
.fi
.TP
.BR color.map
Contains variables customizing colors. See \fBcolor.map\fR(5).
.TP
.BR make.conf
The global custom settings for Portage. See \fBmake.conf\fR(5).
If present, this file will override settings from /etc/make.conf.
.TP
.BR mirrors
Whenever portage encounters a mirror:// style URI it will look up the actual
hosts here. If the mirror set is not found here, it will check the global
mirrors file at /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors. You may also set a
special mirror type called "local". This list of mirrors will be checked
before GENTOO_MIRRORS and will be used even if the package has
RESTRICT="mirror" or RESTRICT="fetch".
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- mirror type followed by a list of hosts
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
# local private mirrors used only by my company
local ftp://192.168.0.3/mirrors/gentoo http://192.168.0.4/distfiles
# people in japan would want to use the japanese mirror first
sourceforge http://keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge
# people in tawain would want to use the local gnu mirror first
gnu ftp://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/UNIX/gnu/
.fi
.TP
.BR modules
This file can be used to override the metadata cache implementation. In
practice, portdbapi.auxdbmodule is the only variable that the user will want to
override.
.I Example:
.nf
portdbapi.auxdbmodule = portage.cache.sqlite.database
.fi
After changing the portdbapi.auxdbmodule setting, it may be necessary to
transfer or regenerate metadata cache. Users of the rsync tree need to
run `emerge \-\-metadata` if they have enabled FEATURES="metadata-transfer"
in \fBmake.conf\fR(5). In order to regenerate metadata for repositories
listed in \fBPORTDIR_OVERLAY\fR or a cvs tree, run `emerge \-\-regen`
(see \fBemerge\fR(1)). If you use something like the sqlite module and want
to keep all metadata in that format alone (useful for querying), enable
FEATURES="metadata-transfer" in \fBmake.conf\fR(5).
.TP
\fBpackage.accept_keywords\fR and \fBpackage.keywords\fR
Per\-package ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. Useful for mixing unstable packages in with a normally
stable system or vice versa. This will allow ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to be augmented
for a single package. If both \fBpackage.accept_keywords\fR and
\fBpackage.keywords\fR are present, both of them will be used, and values
from \fBpackage.accept_keywords\fR will override values from
\fBpackage.keywords\fR. The \fBpackage.accept_keywords\fR file is
intended to replace the \fBpackage.keywords\fR file, since
profiles support a different form of \fBpackage.keywords\fR which
modifies effective KEYWORDS (rather than ACCEPT_KEYWORDS).
.I Format:
.nf
\- comment lines begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line followed by additional KEYWORDS
\- lines without any KEYWORDS imply unstable host arch
.I Example:
# always use unstable libgd
media\-libs/libgd ~x86
# only use stable mplayer
media\-video/mplayer \-~x86
# always use unstable netcat
net-analyzer/netcat
.fi
.I Note:
.fi
In addition to the normal values from ACCEPT_KEYWORDS package.keywords supports
three special tokens:
.nf
\fB*\fR package is visible if it is stable on any architecture
\fB~*\fR package is visible if it is in testing on any architecture
\fB**\fR package is always visible (KEYWORDS are ignored completely)
.fi
.I Additional Note:
If you encounter the \fB-*\fR KEYWORD, this indicates that the package is known
to be broken on all systems which are not otherwise listed in KEYWORDS. For
example, a binary only package which is built for x86 will look like:
games-fps/quake3-demo-1.11.ebuild:KEYWORDS="-* x86"
If you wish to accept this package anyways, then use one of the other keywords in your
package.accept_keywords like this:
games-fps/quake3-demo x86
.TP
.BR package.env
Per\-package environment variable settings. Entries refer to
environment files that are placed in the \fB/etc/portage/env/\fR
directory and have the same format as \fBmake.conf\fR(5).
.I Format:
.nf
\- comment lines begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line followed by name(s) of environment file(s)
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
# use environment variables from /etc/portage/env/glibc.conf for the glibc package
sys\-libs/glibc glibc.conf
.fi
.TP
.BR package.license
This will allow ACCEPT_LICENSE to be augmented for a single package.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comment lines begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line followed by additional licenses or groups
.fi
.TP
.BR package.mask
A list of package atoms to mask. Useful if specific versions of packages do
not work well for you. For example, you swear by the Nvidia drivers, but only
versions earlier than 1.0.4496. No problem!
.I Format:
.nf
\- comment lines begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
# mask out versions 1.0.4496 of the nvidia
# drivers and later
>=media\-video/nvidia\-kernel\-1.0.4496
>=media\-video/nvidia\-glx\-1.0.4496
.fi
.TP
.BR package.properties
This will allow ACCEPT_PROPERTIES to be augmented for a single package.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comment lines begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line followed by additional properties
.fi
.TP
.BR package.unmask
Just like package.mask above, except here you list packages you want to
unmask. Useful for overriding the global package.mask file (see
above). Note that this does not override packages that are masked via
KEYWORDS.
.TP
.BR package.use
Per\-package USE flags. Useful for tracking local USE flags or for
enabling USE flags for certain packages only. Perhaps you develop GTK
and thus you want documentation for it, but you don't want
documentation for QT. Easy as pie my friend!
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line with space-delimited USE flags
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
# turn on docs for GTK 2.x
=x11\-libs/gtk+\-2* doc
# disable mysql support for QT
x11\-libs/qt \-mysql
.fi
.TP
.BR repos.conf
Specifies \fIsite\-specific\fR repository configuration information. Note that
configuration settings which are specified here do not apply to tools
such as \fBrepoman\fR(1) and \fBegencache\fR(1), since operations
performed by these tools
are inherently \fBnot\fR \fIsite\-specific\fR. \fBWARNING:\fR Use of
\fBrepos.conf\fR is generally not recommended since resulting changes in
eclass inheritance (especially due to \fBeclass\-overrides\fR) may trigger
performance issues under some circumstances (see \fBbug #124041\fR). When
using \fBeclass\-overrides\fR, due to bug #276264, you must ensure that
your portage tree does not contain a metadata/cache/ directory. If that
directory exists then you should remove it entirely, and set
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="\-\-exclude=/metadata/cache" in
make.conf in order to exclude the metadata/cache/ directory during
\fBemerge\fR(1) \-\-sync operations.
.I Example:
.nf
[DEFAULT]
# make all repositories inherit eclasses from the java\-overlay and
# java\-experimental repositories, with eclasses from java\-experimental
# taking precedence over those from java\-overlay
eclass\-overrides = java\-overlay java\-experimental
[gentoo]
# disable all eclass overrides for ebuilds from the gentoo repository
eclass\-overrides =
# when processing metadata/layout.conf from other repositories, substitute
# 'gentoo' in place of references to repositories named 'foo' and 'bar'
aliases = foo bar
[kde-testing]
# override the metadata/layout.conf masters setting from the kde-testing repo
masters = gentoo kde
.fi
.RE
.TP
.BR /etc/portage/env/
.RS
In this directory additional package-specific bashrc files can be created.
Portage will source all of them after \fB/etc/portage/bashrc\fR in the following
order:
.nr step 1 1
.IP \n[step]. 3
/etc/portage/env/${CATEGORY}/${PN}
.IP \n+[step].
/etc/portage/env/${CATEGORY}/${PN}:${SLOT}
.IP \n+[step].
/etc/portage/env/${CATEGORY}/${P}
.IP \n+[step].
/etc/portage/env/${CATEGORY}/${PF}
.RE
.TP
.BR /usr/portage/metadata/
.RS
.TP
.BR layout.conf
Specifies information about the repository layout. Currently, only a single
"masters" attribute is supported, which is used to specify names of
repositories which satisfy dependencies on eclasses and/or ebuilds. Each
repository name should correspond the value of a \fBrepo_name\fR entry
from one of the repositories that is configured via the \fBPORTDIR\fR or
\fBPORTDIR_OVERLAY\fR variables (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)). Repositories listed
toward the right of the \fBmasters\fR list take precedence over those listed
toward the left of the list. \fISite-specific\fR
overrides to \fBlayout.conf\fR settings may be specified in
\fB/etc/portage/repos.conf\fR. Settings in \fBrepos.conf\fR take
precedence over settings in \fBlayout.conf\fR, except tools such as
\fBrepoman\fR(1) and \fBegencache\fR(1) will entirely ignore
\fBrepos.conf\fR since their operations are inherently \fBnot\fR
\fIsite\-specific\fR.
.I Example:
.nf
# eclasses provided by java-overlay take precedence over identically named
# eclasses that are provided by gentoo
masters = gentoo java-overlay
.fi
.RE
.TP
.BR /usr/portage/profiles/
Global Gentoo settings that are controlled by the developers. To override
these settings, you can use the files in \fB/etc/portage/\fR.
.RS
.TP
.BR arch.list
A list of all valid KEYWORDS. This does not include modifiers.
.I Format:
.nf
\- one KEYWORD per line
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
x86
ppc
sparc
.fi
.TP
.BR categories
A simple list of valid categories that may be used in /usr/portage,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY, and PKGDIR (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)).
.I Format:
.nf
\- one category per line
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
app\-admin
dev\-lang
games\-strategy
sys\-kernel
.fi
.TP
.BR info_pkgs
A list of all the packages which will be displayed when you run `emerge info`.
.TP
.BR info_vars
A list of all the variables which will be displayed when you run `emerge info`.
.TP
.BR license_groups
This contains groups of licenses that may be specifed in the
\fBACCEPT_LICENSE\fR variable (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)). Refer
to GLEP 23 for further information:
\fIhttp://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html\fR.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one group name, followed by list of licenses and nested groups
\- nested groups are prefixed with the '@' symbol
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
# The FSF-APPROVED group includes the entire GPL-COMPATIBLE group and more.
FSF-APPROVED @GPL-COMPATIBLE Apache-1.1 BSD-4 MPL-1.0 MPL-1.1
# The GPL-COMPATIBLE group includes all licenses compatible with the GNU GPL.
GPL-COMPATIBLE Apache-2.0 BSD BSD-2 GPL-2 GPL-3 LGPL-2.1 LGPL-3 X11 ZLIB
.fi
.TP
.BR package.accept_keywords
Per\-package ACCEPT_KEYWORDS for profiles. This has the same format and
behavior as /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords, including the ability
to list atoms without any keywords in order to accept unstable variants
of all stable keywords listed in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS.
.TP
.BR package.keywords
Per\-profile KEYWORDS. Useful for cases in which the effective KEYWORDS of a
given package should vary depending on which profile the user has selected.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comment lines begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line followed by additional KEYWORDS
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
# add stable keyword to libgd
media\-libs/libgd x86
# remove stable keyword from mplayer and add unstable keyword
media\-video/mplayer \-x86 ~x86
# remove all keywords from netcat
net-analyzer/netcat -*
.fi
.TP
.BR package.mask
This contains a list of DEPEND atoms for packages that should not be installed
in any profile. Useful for adding the latest KDE betas and making sure no
one accidentally upgrades to them. Also useful for quickly masking specific
versions due to security issues. ALWAYS include a comment explaining WHY the
package has been masked and WHO is doing the masking.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one DEPEND atom per line
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
# masked for security reasons
<sys\-libs/zlib\-1.1.4
# <caleb@gentoo.org> (10 Sep 2003)
# new kde betas
=kde\-base/kde\-3.2.0_beta1
=kde\-base/kdeaccessibility\-3.2.0_beta1
.fi
.TP
.BR profiles.desc
List all the current stable and development profiles. If a profile is listed
here, then it will be checked by repoman.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- one profile list per line in format: arch dir status
\- arch must be listed in arch.list
\- dir is relative to profiles.desc
\- status must be 'stable', 'dev', or 'exp'
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
alpha default/linux/alpha/10.0 stable
m68k default/linux/m68k/10.0 dev
x86 default/linux/x86/10.0 stable
x86-linux prefix/linux/x86 exp
.fi
.TP
.BR repo_name
The first line of the file should define a unique repository name. The name
may contain any of the characters [A\-Za\-z0\-9_\-]. It must not begin with a
hyphen.
.TP
.BR thirdpartymirrors
Controls the mapping of mirror:// style URIs to actual lists of
mirrors. Keeps us from overloading a single server.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- mirror type followed by a list of hosts
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
sourceforge http://aleron.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge
gentoo http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles
kernel http://www.kernel.org/pub http://www.us.kernel.org/pub
.fi
.TP
.BR use.desc
All global USE flags must be listed here with a description of what they do.
.I Format:
.nf
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- use flag \- some description
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
3dfx \- Adds support for 3dfx video cards
acl \- Adds support for Access Control Lists
doc \- Adds extra documentation
.fi
.TP
.BR use.local.desc
All local USE flags are listed here along with the package and a
description. This file is automatically generated from the
metadata.xml files that are included with each individual package.
Refer to GLEP 56 for further information:
\fIhttp://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0056.html\fR.
.nf
.I Format:
\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
\- package:use flag \- description
.I Example:
app\-editors/nano:justify \- Toggles the justify option
dev\-libs/DirectFB:fusion \- Adds Multi Application support
games\-emulation/xmess:net \- Adds network support
.fi
.RE
.TP
.BR /usr/share/portage/config/
.RS
.TP
.BR make.globals
The global default settings for Portage. This comes from the portage package
itself. Settings in \fBmake.conf\fR or \fBpackage.env\fR
override values here. The format
is described extensivly in \fBmake.conf\fR(5).
.RE
.TP
.BR /var/cache/edb/
.RS
This directory is used to store internal portage cache files. The names and
purpose of these files are not documented on purpose so as to keep down bitrot
as internals change. If you aren't working on portage internally, then the
details most likely do not matter to you.
This entire directory can be safely deleted. It is highly recommended you do
not do this however as it can be a time consuming process to generate them all
again.
.RE
.TP
.BR /var/db/pkg/
.RS
All installed package information is recorded here. If portage thinks you have
a package installed, it is usually because it is listed here.
The format follows somewhat closely that of the portage tree. There is a
directory for each category and a package-version subdirectory for each package
you have installed.
Inside each package directory are misc files that describe the installed
contents of the package as well as build time information (so that the package
can be unmerged without needing the portage tree).
The exact file contents and format are not described here again so that things
can be changed quickly. Generally though there is one file per environment
variable that "matters" (like CFLAGS) with the contents stored inside of it.
Another common file is the CONTENTS file which lists the path and hashes of
all objects that the package installed onto your system.
.RE
.TP
.BR /var/lib/portage/
.RS
.TP
.BR config
Hashes which are used to determine whether files in config protected
directories have been modified since being installed. Files which have not
been modified will automatically be unmerged.
.TP
.BR world
Every time you emerge a package, the package that you requested is
recorded here. Then when you run `emerge world \-up`, the list of
packages is read from this file. Note that this does not mean that the
packages that were installed as dependencies are listed here. For
example, if you run `emerge mod_wsgi` and you do not have apache
already, then "www\-apache/mod_wsgi" is recorded in the world file but
"www\-servers/apache" is not. For more information, review \fBemerge\fR(1).
.I Format:
.nf
\- one DEPEND atom base per line
.fi
.I Example:
.nf
games\-misc/fortune\-mod\-gentoo\-dev
dev\-libs/uclibc
app\-cdr/cdemu
.fi
.RE
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/
.SH "AUTHORS"
.nf
Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Drake Wyrm <wyrm@haell.com>
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@gentoo.org>
.fi
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR emerge (1),
.BR ebuild (1),
.BR ebuild (5),
.BR make.conf (5),
.BR color.map (5)
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