From 829868ebd3a92e1fbffd3397946d820baf2b8d03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: solar Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:44:13 +0000 Subject: - park man page in svn svn path=/; revision=390 --- trunk/src/genpkgindex/genpkgindex.1 | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 trunk/src/genpkgindex/genpkgindex.1 (limited to 'trunk/src') diff --git a/trunk/src/genpkgindex/genpkgindex.1 b/trunk/src/genpkgindex/genpkgindex.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0964a14 --- /dev/null +++ b/trunk/src/genpkgindex/genpkgindex.1 @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +.TH "genpkgindex" "1" "" "Ned Ludd" "gentoolkit" +.SH "NAME" +.LP +genpkgindex \- Generates package metadata from binary packages for use with programs such a qmerge from portage\-utils +.SH "USAGE" +.LP +genpkgindex [\fI\-\-compress\fP] <\fIpkgdir\fP> + +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.LP +Generates package metadata from binary packages for use with programs such a qmerge from portage\-utils +.SH "OPTIONS" +.LP +.TP +\fB\-\-compress\fR +Compresses the generated metadata with bzip2. +.TP +<\fIpkgdir\fP> is the location of the binary packages. The default is normally /usr/portage/packages/All + +.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" +.LP +.TP +\fBPKGDIR\fP +is the location of binary packages that you can have created with FEATURES=buildpkg, '\-\-buildpkg' or '\-b/\-B' while emerging a package. +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.LP +Typical usage is to simply run: +.LP +genpkgindex +.LP +Alternatively if you want the metadata compressed: +.LP +genpkgindex \-\-compress +.LP +.SH "NOTES" +.LP +When no package directories are directly given to genpkgindex on the command line it will output additional variables that it assumes from the running portage environment. +.LP +When FEATURES=cleanpkgdir is enabled genpkgindex will invoke "/usr/bin/eclean \-d packages" before creating any package metadata. +.LP +genpkgindex intended use is to be run from /etc/portage/bashrc in the $EBUILD_PHASE of "postinst". +.LP +.SH "AUTHORS" +.LP +Ned Ludd +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.LP +emerge(1) qmerge(1) make.conf(5) portage(5) -- cgit v1.2.3