ebuild

A low level interface to the Gentoo Portage system.

• 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

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