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Gentoolkit is a collection of tools used by Funtoo Linux to administer and develop the Portage package management system. The tools are managed and installed by Portage itself. Funtoo Linux offer this package as part of stage3.

The tools are split into two related packages: gentoolkit and gentoolkit-dev. As with the rest of Portage they are written in Python.

Gentoolkit provides:

eclean
enalyze
equery
eread
euse
glsa-check
revdep-rebuild

eclean

Eclean is a tool that cleans old files from the local source file and binary package repositories (called DISTDIR and PKGDIR, respectively). These repositories will grow indefinitely unless cleaned up. eclean must be run with an action to specify whether it is cleaning up binary packages or source files.

root # eclean
!!! Wrong or missing action name on command line.

Usage:
 eclean [global-option] ... <action> [action-option] ...
 eclean [--help, --version]

Available actions:
 packages     - clean outdated binary packages from PKGDIR
 distfiles    - clean outdated packages sources files from DISTDIR

More detailed instruction can be found in `man eclean`

eclean-dist

Eclean-dist is the most useful form of the command for most users. eclean-dist is a shortcut for the "eclean distfiles" command to cleanup the source files that accumulate when you download and install packages. eclean-dist will also report any installed packages that are no longer unavailable. Running eclean-dist regularly from cron or your preferred scheduling package can help conserve storage on systems with limited space.

root # eclean-dist

* Building file list for distfiles cleaning...
* Your distfiles directory was already clean.
    The following unavailable installed packages were found
             dev-python/attrs-21.2.0

equery

Equery is a tool that displays information about the installed packages on the system. equery is based on a system of modules. Running it without arguments displays a list of options.

root # equery

equery b

Running equery with the b flag is useful to determine which package a file comes from.

root # equery b /usr/lib/libpam.so
 * Searching for /usr/lib/libpam.so ... 
sys-libs/pam-1.1.8-r2 (/usr/lib64/libpam.so)

equery f

Running equery with the f flag is useful to show all installed files from a package.

root # equery f domination
 * Searching for domination ...
 * Contents of games-board/domination-1.1.1.5:
/usr
/usr/games
/usr/games/bin
/usr/games/bin/domination
...

glsa-check

Glsa-check shows what potential vulnerabilities your system has.

root # glsa-check -l
[A] means this GLSA was marked as applied (injected),
[U] means the system is not affected and
[N] indicates that the system might be affected.

201310-15 [N] GNU Automake: Multiple vulnerabilities ( sys-devel/automake )

gentoolkit-dev

This package contains Portage development tools.

eviewcvs - Generates ViewCVS URLs.
gensync - Synchronize local Portage tree against an arbitrary upstream repository.
ekeyword - Change/update keywords in a set of ebuilds.
ebump - Bump the revision number of an ebuild and all support files.
echangelog - Automatically create ebuild changelog entries.

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