EMAINT

Section: Portage (1)
Updated: Jan 2017
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NAME

emaint - performs package management related system health checks and maintenance

The emaint program provides a command line interface to package management health checks and maintenance.

all: Perform all supported commands that accept the specified option.
binhost: Generate a metadata index for binary packages located in PKGDIR (for download by remote clients). See the PORTAGE_BINHOST documentation in the make.conf(5) man page for additional information.
OPTIONS: check, fix
cleanconfmem: Discard no longer installed config tracker entries.
OPTIONS: check, fix
cleanresume: Discard merge lists saved for the emerge(1) --resume action.
OPTIONS: check, fix
logs: Clean out old logs from the PORTAGE_LOGDIR using the command PORTAGE_LOGDIR_CLEAN. See the make.conf(5) man page for additional information as well as enabling the 'clean-logs' feature in emerge to do this automatically.
OPTIONS: check, clean
merges: Scan for failed package merges and attempt to fix those failed packages.
OPTIONS: check, fix, purge
movebin: Perform package move updates for binary packages located in PKGDIR.
OPTIONS: check, fix
moveinst: Perform package move updates for installed packages.
OPTIONS: check, fix
sync: Perform sync actions on specified repositories.
OPTIONS: allrepos, auto, repo
world: Fix problems in the world file.
OPTIONS: check, fix

-C, --clean: Cleans the logs from PORTAGE_LOGDIR
-p, --pretend: Sets pretend mode (same as -c, --check) for use with the -C, --clean OPTION
-t NUM, --time NUM: Changes the minimum age NUM (in days) of the logs to be listed or deleted.

-a, --auto: Sync repositories which have their auto-sync setting set yes, true.
-A, --allrepos: Sync all repositories which have a sync-uri specified.
-r, --repo REPO: Sync the repository specified.
--sync-submodule <glsa|news|profiles>: Restrict sync to the specified submodule(s). This option may be specified multiple times, in order to sync multiple submodules. Currently, this option has no effect for sync protocols other than rsync.

Please report bugs via https://bugs.gentoo.org/

Pavel Kazakov <nullishzero@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org>

/var/lib/portage/world: Contains a list of all user-specified packages.
/var/lib/portage/config: Contains the paths and md5sums of all the config files being tracked.
/var/lib/portage/failed-merges: Contains the packages and timestamps of any failed merges being cleaned from the system, and to be re-emerged.