ebuild

linux

A low level interface to the Gentoo Portage system.

Examples (8)

Create or update the package manifest

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild manifest

Clean the temporary build directories for the build file

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild clean

Fetch sources if they do not exist

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild fetch

Extract the sources to a temporary build directory

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild unpack

Compile the extracted sources

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild compile

Install the package to a temporary install directory

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild install

Install the temporary files to the live filesystem

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild qmerge

Fetch, unpack, compile, install, and qmerge the specified ebuild file

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild merge