Package management system based on ports collections.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage
Portage is a GPLv2 package management system based on ports collections. The Package Manager Specification Project (PMS) standardizes and documents the behavior of Portage so that the Gentoo packages can be managed by other package managers. Some alternative package managers for Gentoo include Paludis and pkgcore.
The goal of the Portage project is to provide a seamless integration of developer and user tools to aid the growth and maintenance of Gentoo packages. This means we work not only on Portage itself, but also on associated tools, and on ensuring that our APIs are useful to other tools.
Version: 3.0.2
General Commands | |
| dispatch-conf | Sanely update configuration files after emerging new packages |
| ebuild | a low level interface to the Portage system |
| egencache | generate metadata cache for ebuild repositories |
| emaint | performs package management related system health checks and maintenance |
| emerge | Command-line interface to the Portage system |
| emirrordist | a fetch tool for mirroring of package distfiles |
| env-update | updates environment settings automatically |
| etc-update | handle configuration file updates |
| fixpackages | Perform package move updates for all packages |
| glsa-check | Tool to locally monitor and manage GLSAs |
| quickpkg | creates portage packages |
File Formats | |
| color.map | custom color settings for Portage |
| ebuild | the internal format, variables, and functions in an ebuild script |
| make.conf | custom settings for Portage |
| portage | the heart of Gentoo |
| xpak | The XPAK Data Format used with Portage binary packages |