ebuild

A low level interface to the Gentoo Portage system. More information: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ebuild.

• Create or update the package manifest:

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild manifest

• Clean the temporary build directories for the build file:

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild clean

• Fetch sources if they do not exist:

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild fetch

• Extract the sources to a temporary build directory:

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild unpack

• Compile the extracted sources:

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild compile

• Install the package to a temporary install directory:

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild install

• Install the temporary files to the live filesystem:

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild qmerge

• Fetch, unpack, compile, install and qmerge the specified ebuild file:

ebuild path/to/file.ebuild merge