Gentoolkit

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Gentoolkit is a collection of tools used by Gentoo Linux to administer and develop the Portage package management system. The tools are managed and installed by Portage itself; on a Funtoo Linux system one can install gentoolkit by issuing the following command:

root # emerge gentoolkit

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

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 with out 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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