ebuild
A low level interface to the Gentoo Portage system. More information: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ebuild.
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Create or update the package manifest:
ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} manifest
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Clean the temporary build directories for the build file:
ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} clean
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Fetch sources if they do not exist:
ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} fetch
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Extract the sources to a temporary build directory:
ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} unpack
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Compile the extracted sources:
ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} compile
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Install the package to a temporary install directory:
ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} install
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Install the temporary files to the live filesystem:
ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} qmerge
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Fetch, unpack, compile, install and qmerge the specified ebuild file:
ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} merge
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