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Gentoo is a source-based Linux distribution designed to be automatically optimized and customized according to the user's need.

Gentoo is a computer operating system built on top of the Linux kernel and based on the Portage package management system. It is distributed as free and open source software, but includes some proprietary software packages.

Philosophy

Unlike a conventional software distribution, the user compiles the source code locally according to their chosen configuration.

Releases

Gentoo is based on a rolling release principle: once installed, a system can be upgraded package by package. Although Gentoo releases originally existed in the form of installation media, since 2008, installation media are regenerated every week.

Documentation

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How to view all packages in some overlay?

I have some overlay installed. How I can see all packages in there ?
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Customize ebuild in Gentoo within the portage tree

How can I customize an ebuild in Gentoo without maintaining a customized package in own overlay? The case is that I need to mark compiled binaries with paxctl. But there are about 100 of such packages and I don't want to watch for updates by myself…
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Find out a package's configure/compile options in Gentoo

On a Gentoo Linux box which I'm not administering (and to which I don't have root access), how can I find out the options which were used to compile the package? (Please note I've never worked with Gentoo before, but have good working knowledge of…
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Display package.mask info gentoo

Is there a tool available in gentoo to simply output why a package has been hard masked? Scrolling through the /usr/portage/profiles tree and reading every package.mask file applicable for your profile is a bit time consuming. Especially, because…
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How to query installed packages with specific use flag?

I want to query a installed package, and it must have specified use flag: e.g. eix -I curl:use flag Currently I am using grep to filter the output. I want to know if it is possible to do it in one command line.
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What's the difference between "equery depends" and "equery depgraph"?

xi@localhost /usr/src $ equery depgraph gcc | wc -l 872 xi@localhost /usr/src $ equery depends gcc * These packages depend on gcc: app-admin/eselect-python-20100321 (>=sys-devel/gcc-3.4) sys-devel/llvm-3.0-r2…
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Gentoo does not seem to be booting new kernel

I need btrfs filesystem support. I followed the wiki article and rebuilt the kernel, adding btrfs as a built-in kernel object. When I boot the new kernel and try to manually mount a btrfs filesystem, I get "mount: unknown filesystem type 'btrfs'". I…
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How to configure Ethernet in Gentoo on s390x?

I've booted from SLES 10 SP2 CD and installed Gentoo. Now I'm trying to make Ethernet work (it is working in SLES). I found this document, but in current kernel (2.6.38.2) sysfs layout is some different, for example, there is no parameters file in…
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Gentoo Portage. What exactly 'revdep-rebuild' command does?

I know it's necessary to run revdep-rebuild after upgrades of my Gentoo Linux. I also kind-of understand that revdep-rebuild detects shared libraries conflicts and fixes them somehow. But I want to understand more. If (hypothetically) I decide to…
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Regenerating default overlay in gentoo

Could not sync portage for some time - realizing it was because I was using git as sync method and the repo was not maintained anymore. They also provided new links so I updated sync-uri option in…
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Gentoo Linux portage USE flags: what is the difference between removing a default vs. not having a default, how do the defaults compare, no-multilib?

Gentoo Linux portage relies on USE flags to customize compiling options for software. Here's an example showing how to organize USE flags in a make.conf file: # ************ USE ************** # ******** profile 'kde' ******** MYPROFILE="apache2…
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Hugin 2012 build fail on Gentoo

My system is Gentoo amd64, up to date. [I] dev-libs/boost Available versions: 1.49.0-r2 (~)1.52.0-r6(0/1.52) (~)1.53.0(0/1.53) [M](~)1.54.0(0/1.54) {debug doc icu mpi +nls python static-libs +threads tools PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_5 python2_6…
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Series of question on ebuild scripting. Given original passage from devrel & questions

Scope Whenever an ebuild is sourced, the functions and variables within it are loaded into memory by the script interpreter. However, only variables and instructions that are not part of a function are interpreted - functions such as src_compile()…
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Help with understanding the usage of the command "equery has"

equery has portage !!! Fatal error: Used ENV_VAR without match_expression or --package There is no description in http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Gentoolkit On the other hand man page says it is not working fully yet. However how could I get…
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How much time needs Gentoo for updating the set @world?

I have executed this command: emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse @world. It has been executed about a couple of hours and it is still installing things. Is it normal?
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