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2<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gentoolkit.xml,v 1.17 2004/10/24 22:48:37 neysx Exp $ --> 2<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/gentoolkit.xml,v 1.18 2004/12/27 20:32:02 swift Exp $ -->
3<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> 3<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
4 4
5<guide link="/doc/en/gentoolkit.xml"> 5<guide link="/doc/en/gentoolkit.xml">
6<title>Gentoolkit</title> 6<title>Gentoolkit</title>
7 7
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26<abstract> 26<abstract>
27Gentoolkit is a suite of tools to ease the administration of a Gentoo system. 27Gentoolkit is a suite of tools to ease the administration of a Gentoo system.
28This document covers the basics of some of the tools present in Gentoolkit. 28This document covers the basics of some of the tools present in Gentoolkit.
29</abstract> 29</abstract>
30 30
31<version>1.4</version> 31<version>1.5</version>
32<date>August 25, 2004</date> 32<date>2004-12-27</date>
33 33
34<chapter> 34<chapter>
35<title>Introduction</title> 35<title>Introduction</title>
36<section> 36<section>
37<title>What is Gentoolkit?</title> 37<title>What is Gentoolkit?</title>
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94</body> 94</body>
95</section> 95</section>
96</chapter> 96</chapter>
97 97
98<chapter> 98<chapter>
99<title>Querying Package Data with qpkg</title> 99<title>equery</title>
100<section> 100<section>
101<title>Introduction</title> 101<title>Introduction</title>
102<body> 102<body>
103 103
104<p> 104<p>
105<c>qpkg</c> is a flexible tool for determining information about installed
106ebuilds. It can provide information about what files belong to which ebuilds,
107whether multiple versions of the same package are installed and what a
108particular ebuild does. It can also be used to query some information about
109ebuilds that have not been installed.
110</p>
111
112<p>
113Calling <c>qpkg</c> with no arguments prints a list of all ebuilds with
114asterisks (*) next to the packages that are installed on the system.
115</p>
116
117<note>
118By default, <c>qpkg</c> prints output in color. To turn this off on the command
119line, use the <c>--no-color</c> or <c>-nc</c> flag.
120</note>
121
122</body>
123</section>
124<section>
125<title>Querying Package Information</title>
126<body>
127
128<p>
129One of the most common uses for <c>qpkg</c> is determining what a given package
130is. For instance, while looking through <path>net-misc</path>, I saw a package
131called <path>neon</path>. Having no idea what it was, I ran qpkg.
132</p>
133
134<pre caption="Package Information">
135# <i>qpkg -i net-misc/neon</i>
136net-misc/neon-0.24.4
137 HTTP and WebDAV client library [ http://www.webdav.org/neon ]
138net-misc/neon-0.23.8
139 HTTP and WebDAV client library [ http://www.webdav.org/neon ]
140net-misc/neon-0.24.6
141 HTTP and WebDAV client library [ http://www.webdav.org/neon/ ]
142net-misc/neon-0.24.5
143 HTTP and WebDAV client library [ http://www.webdav.org/neon ]
144net-misc/neon-0.24.0
145 HTTP and WebDAV client library [ http://www.webdav.org/neon ]
146net-misc/neon-0.21.3
147 HTTP and WebDAV client library [ http://www.webdav.org/neon ]
148net-misc/neon-0.23.9
149 HTTP and WebDAV client library [ http://www.webdav.org/neon ]
150net-misc/neon-0.24.7
151 HTTP and WebDAV client library [ http://www.webdav.org/neon/ ]
152net-misc/neon-0.24.2
153 HTTP and WebDAV client library [ http://www.webdav.org/neon ]
154</pre>
155
156<p>
157<c>qpkg</c> read through the ebuild files for the nine
158<path>net-misc/neon</path> ebuilds and printed out the information stored in
159DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE.
160</p>
161
162</body>
163</section>
164<section>
165<title>Listing Files Belonging to an Ebuild</title>
166<body>
167
168<p>
169<c>qpkg</c> can also list the files that belong to an installed ebuild. I
170know that gentoolkit installed several tools, but I don't know what they
171all are. To find out, I can do a <c>qpkg -l</c>.
172</p>
173
174<pre caption="Package File list using qpkg">
175# <i>qpkg -l app-portage/gentoolkit</i>
176app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8 *
177CONTENTS:
178/usr
179/usr/bin
180/usr/bin/euse
181/usr/bin/qpkg
182/usr/bin/etcat
183/usr/bin/revdep-rebuild
184/usr/bin/glsa-check
185/usr/bin/dep-clean
186/usr/bin/equery
187/usr/bin/ewhich
188/usr/bin/pkg-size
189/usr/lib
190/usr/lib/gentoolkit
191/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym
192/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/glsa.py
193/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit.py
194/usr/sbin
195/usr/sbin/pkg-clean
196/usr/sbin/mkebuild
197/usr/share
198/usr/share/doc
199/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8
200/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/NEWS
201/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/TODO
202/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/euse
203/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/euse/TODO
204/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/euse/README
205/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/euse/AUTHORS
206/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/euse/ChangeLog
207/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/qpkg
208/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/qpkg/README
209/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/qpkg/AUTHORS
210/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/qpkg/ChangeLog
211/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/etcat
212/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/etcat/README
213/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/etcat/AUTHORS
214/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/revdep-rebuild
215/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/revdep-rebuild/TODO
216/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/revdep-rebuild/README
217/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/revdep-rebuild/AUTHORS
218/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/README
219/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/equery
220/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/equery/README
221/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/equery/AUTHORS
222/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/AUTHORS
223/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/gentoolkit
224/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/gentoolkit/TODO
225/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/gentoolkit/README
226/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/gentoolkit/AUTHORS
227/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/gentoolkit/ChangeLog
228/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/ChangeLog
229/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8/COPYING
230/usr/share/man
231/usr/share/man/man1
232/usr/share/man/man1/revdep-rebuild.1.gz
233/usr/share/man/man1/mkebuild.1.gz
234/usr/share/man/man1/qpkg.1.gz
235/usr/share/man/man1/pkg-clean.1.gz
236/usr/share/man/man1/etcat.1.gz
237/usr/share/man/man1/ewhich.1.gz
238/usr/share/man/man1/equery.1.gz
239/usr/share/man/man1/euse.1.gz
240/usr/share/man/man1/dep-clean.1.gz
241/usr/share/man/man1/pkg-size.1.gz
242</pre>
243
244<note>
245In case you have gentoolkit-dev installed, <c>qpkg</c> will list out files for
246that as well, i.e. it displays the file list for all installed packages with
247the name gentoolkit.
248</note>
249
250</body>
251</section>
252<section>
253<title>Finding the Package That a File Came From</title>
254<body>
255
256<p>
257To find the package that a file came from, use the <c>-f</c> or
258<c>--find-file</c> flag.
259</p>
260
261<pre caption="Finding the ebuild that installed a given file">
262# <i>qpkg -f /usr/lib/mozilla</i>
263net-www/mozilla *
264</pre>
265
266</body>
267</section>
268<section>
269<title>Listing Duplicate Packages</title>
270<body>
271
272<p>
273Sometimes multiple versions of the same package may exist. <c>qpkg --dups</c>
274will print a list of duplicate packages. The existence of a duplicate package
275though may not indicate that the older version may be removed. They may fill
276different slots. To look for duplicates in the same slot, use <c>qpkg --dups
277--slot</c>. I just updated KDE from 3.0 to 3.0.2, so I have some duplicates in
278the same slot.
279</p>
280
281<pre caption="Finding duplicate packages">
282# <i>qpkg --dups --slot</i>
283app-portage/gentoolkit
284kde-base/kdeaddons
285kde-base/kdeadmin
286kde-base/kdeartwork
287kde-base/kdebase
288kde-base/kdegames
289kde-base/kdelibs
290kde-base/kdemultimedia
291kde-base/kdenetwork
292kde-base/kdetoys
293kde-base/kdeutils
294media-libs/freetype
295x11-libs/qt
296</pre>
297
298</body>
299</section>
300<section>
301<title>Verifying Package Integrity</title>
302<body>
303
304<p>
305Sometimes it is useful to check a package's integrity to know that files have
306not been replaced since they were installed. <c>qpkg</c> can verify md5 sums as
307well as install times to indicate whether files for the package might have been
308corrupted, replaced, or removed.
309</p>
310
311<p>
312To check both mtimes and md5 sums, use the <c>-c</c> flag.
313</p>
314
315<pre caption="See the Difference?">
316# <i>qpkg cdrtools -c -v</i>
317app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01_alpha25 *
318/etc/default/rscsi.dfl !mtime!
319/usr/bin/devdump !md5! !mtime!
320/usr/bin/mkisofs !md5! !mtime!
321/usr/bin/isovfy !md5! !mtime!
322/usr/bin/readcd !md5! !mtime!
323/usr/bin/cdda2wav !md5! !mtime!
324/usr/bin/cdrecord !md5! !mtime!
325/usr/bin/isodump !md5! !mtime!
326/usr/bin/isoinfo !md5! !mtime!
327/usr/lib/libfile.a !md5! !mtime!
328/usr/lib/librscg.a !md5! !mtime!
329/usr/lib/libunls.a !md5! !mtime!
330/usr/lib/libedc_ecc.a !md5! !mtime!
331/usr/lib/libdeflt.a !md5! !mtime!
332/usr/lib/libhfs.a !md5! !mtime!
333/usr/lib/libscg.a !md5! !mtime!
334/usr/lib/libparanoia.a !md5! !mtime!
335/usr/lib/libschily.a !md5! !mtime!
336/usr/sbin/rscsi !md5! !mtime!
337/usr/share/man/man1/cdrecord.1.gz !md5! !mtime!
338/usr/share/man/man1/readcd.1.gz !md5! !mtime!
339/usr/share/man/man1/cdda2wav.1.gz !md5! !mtime!
340/usr/share/man/man8/mkisofs.8.gz !md5! !mtime!
34176/150
342
343app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01_alpha37 *
3440/122
345</pre>
346
347<p>
348As you can see, I have more than one version of cdrtools installed. <c>qpkg</c>
349reports that many of the files from the older version have been changed since I
350installed it. Those packages were most likely modified when I updated from
351<path>cdrtools-2.01_alpha25</path> to <path>cdrtools-2.01_alpha37</path>. Note
352that the last two lines indicate that 0 of 122 files from <path>cdrtools-2.01
353_alpha37</path> have been changed since I installed. That is good. If any of
354them had been changed, I would be worried.
355</p>
356
357</body>
358</section>
359<section>
360<title>But Wait... There's More</title>
361<body>
362
363<p>
364<c>qpkg</c> can be used for other querying tasks that I will not cover here.
365There is a very complete man page for <c>qpkg</c>. Please read it for more
366information.
367</p>
368
369</body>
370</section>
371</chapter>
372
373<chapter>
374<title>equery</title>
375<section>
376<title>Introduction</title>
377<body>
378
379<p>
380<c>equery</c> is a tool that supports features that <c>qpkg</c> and <c>epm</c> 105<c>equery</c> is a tool that supports features that <c>epm</c> (and the
381have but has its own set of features that make it really useful. <c>equery 106deprecated <c>qpkg</c>) has but has its own set of features that make it
382--help</c> gives you the full set of options. <c>equery</c> will eventually 107really useful. <c>equery --help</c> gives you the full set of options.
383replace <c>etcat</c> at some point of time. 108<c>equery</c> will eventually replace <c>etcat</c> at some point of time.
384</p> 109</p>
385 110
386<note> 111<note>
387Not all features listed by <c>equery --help</c> have been implemented yet. 112Not all features listed by <c>equery --help</c> have been implemented yet.
388Those that have not been, are mentioned clearly. 113Those that have not been, are mentioned clearly.
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