1 .TH "EMAINT" "1" "Nov 2008" "Portage VERSION" "Portage"
3 emaint \- performs system health checks and maintenance
7 [\fBall\fR | \fBbinhost\fR | \fBcleanresume\fR | \
8 \fBmovebin\fR | \fBmoveinst\fR | \fBworld\fR]
10 The emaint program provides an interface to system health
11 checks and maintenance.
15 Perform all supported commands.
18 Generate a metadata index for binary packages located in \fBPKGDIR\fR (for
19 download by remote clients). See the \fBPORTAGE_BINHOST\fR documentation in
20 the \fBmake.conf\fR(5) man page for additional information.
23 Discard no longer installed config tracker entries.
26 Discard merge lists saved for the \fBemerge\fR(1) \fB--resume\fR action.
29 Clean out old logs from the \fBPORT_LOGDIR\fR using the command
30 \fBPORT_LOGDIR_CLEAN\fR
31 See the \fBmake.conf\fR(5) man page for additional information as well as
32 enabling the \fB'clean-logs'\fR feature in emerge to do this automatically.
35 Perform package move updates for binary packages located in \fBPKGDIR\fR.
38 Perform package move updates for installed packages.
41 Fix problems in the \fIworld\fR file.
45 Check for any problems that may exist. (all commands)
48 Fix any problems that may exist. (not all commands)
52 Cleans the logs from \fBPORT_LOGDIR\fR (logs command only)
55 Sets pretend mode (same as \-c, \-\-check) for use with the \-C, \-\-clean
56 OPTION (logs command only)
58 .B \-t NUM, \-\-time NUM
59 Changes the minimum age \fBNUM\fR (in days) of the logs to be listed or
60 deleted. (logs command only)
62 Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/
65 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
66 Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org>
70 .B /var/lib/portage/world
71 Contains a list of all user\-specified packages.
73 .B /var/lib/portage/config
74 Contains the paths and md5sums of all the config files being tracked.