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portage - Package manager for Gentoo
New in version 1.6.
Synopsis
- Manages Gentoo packages
Requirements (on host that executes module)
- gentoolkit
Options
parameter | required | default | choices | comments |
---|---|---|---|---|
changed_use
(added in 1.8)
|
no |
|
Include installed packages where USE flags have changed, except when
flags that the user has not enabled are added or removed
(--changed-use)
|
|
deep |
no |
|
Consider the entire dependency tree of packages (--deep)
|
|
depclean |
no |
|
Remove packages not needed by explicitly merged packages (--depclean)
If no package is specified, clean up the world's dependencies
Otherwise, --depclean serves as a dependency aware version of --unmerge
|
|
getbinpkg |
no |
|
Prefer packages specified at PORTAGE_BINHOST in make.conf
|
|
jobs
(added in 2.3)
|
no | None |
Specifies the number of packages to build simultaneously.
|
|
keepgoing
(added in 2.3)
|
no |
|
Continue as much as possible after an error.
|
|
loadavg
(added in 2.3)
|
no | None |
Specifies that no new builds should be started if there are
other builds running and the load average is at least LOAD
|
|
newuse |
no |
|
Include installed packages where USE flags have changed (--newuse)
|
|
nodeps |
no |
|
Only merge packages but not their dependencies (--nodeps)
|
|
noreplace |
no |
|
Do not re-emerge installed packages (--noreplace)
|
|
oneshot |
no |
|
Do not add the packages to the world file (--oneshot)
|
|
onlydeps |
no |
|
Only merge packages' dependencies but not the packages (--onlydeps)
|
|
package |
no |
Package atom or set, e.g. sys-apps/foo or >foo-2.13 or @world
|
||
quiet |
no |
|
Run emerge in quiet mode (--quiet)
|
|
state |
no | present |
|
State of the package atom
|
sync |
no |
|
Sync package repositories first
If yes, perform "emerge --sync"
If web, perform "emerge-webrsync"
|
|
update |
no |
|
Update packages to the best version available (--update)
|
|
usepkgonly |
no |
|
Merge only binaries (no compiling). This sets getbinpkg=yes.
|
|
verbose |
no |
|
Run emerge in verbose mode (--verbose)
|
Examples
# Make sure package foo is installed
- portage:
package: foo
state: present
# Make sure package foo is not installed
- portage:
package: foo
state: absent
# Update package foo to the "latest" version ( os specific alternative to latest )
- portage:
package: foo
update: yes
# Install package foo using PORTAGE_BINHOST setup
- portage:
package: foo
getbinpkg: yes
# Re-install world from binary packages only and do not allow any compiling
- portage:
package: '@world'
usepkgonly: yes
# Sync repositories and update world
- portage:
package: '@world'
update: yes
deep: yes
sync: yes
# Remove unneeded packages
- portage:
depclean: yes
# Remove package foo if it is not explicitly needed
- portage:
package: foo
state: absent
depclean: yes
Status
This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.
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© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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