portage – Package manager for Gentoo

Synopsis

  • Manages Gentoo packages

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • gentoolkit

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
changed_use
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Include installed packages where USE flags have changed, except when
flags that the user has not enabled are added or removed
(--changed-use)
deep
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Consider the entire dependency tree of packages (--deep)
depclean
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Remove packages not needed by explicitly merged packages (--depclean)
If no package is specified, clean up the world's dependencies
Otherwise, --depclean serves as a dependency aware version of --unmerge
getbinpkg
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Prefer packages specified at PORTAGE_BINHOST in make.conf
jobs
-
Specifies the number of packages to build simultaneously.
Since version 2.6: Value of 0 or False resets any previously added
--jobs setting values
keepgoing
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Continue as much as possible after an error.
loadavg
-
Specifies that no new builds should be started if there are
other builds running and the load average is at least LOAD
Since version 2.6: Value of 0 or False resets any previously added
--load-average setting values
newuse
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Include installed packages where USE flags have changed (--newuse)
nodeps
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Only merge packages but not their dependencies (--nodeps)
noreplace
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Do not re-emerge installed packages (--noreplace)
oneshot
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Do not add the packages to the world file (--oneshot)
onlydeps
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Only merge packages' dependencies but not the packages (--onlydeps)
package
-
Package atom or set, e.g. sys-apps/foo or >foo-2.13 or @world
quiet
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Run emerge in quiet mode (--quiet)
quietbuild
boolean
added in 2.6
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Redirect all build output to logs alone, and do not display it
on stdout (--quiet-build)
quietfail
boolean
added in 2.6
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Suppresses display of the build log on stdout (--quiet-fail)
Only the die message and the path of the build log will be
displayed on stdout.
state
-
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • installed
  • emerged
  • absent
  • removed
  • unmerged
  • latest
State of the package atom
sync
-
    Choices:
  • web
  • yes
  • no
Sync package repositories first
If yes, perform "emerge --sync"
If web, perform "emerge-webrsync"
update
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Update packages to the best version available (--update)
usepkgonly
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Merge only binaries (no compiling). This sets getbinpkg=yes.
verbose
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Run emerge in verbose mode (--verbose)

Examples

# Make sure package foo is installed
- portage:
    package: foo
    state: present

# Make sure package foo is not installed
- portage:
    package: foo
    state: absent

# Update package foo to the "latest" version ( os specific alternative to latest )
- portage:
    package: foo
    update: yes

# Install package foo using PORTAGE_BINHOST setup
- portage:
    package: foo
    getbinpkg: yes

# Re-install world from binary packages only and do not allow any compiling
- portage:
    package: '@world'
    usepkgonly: yes

# Sync repositories and update world
- portage:
    package: '@world'
    update: yes
    deep: yes
    sync: yes

# Remove unneeded packages
- portage:
    depclean: yes

# Remove package foo if it is not explicitly needed
- portage:
    package: foo
    state: absent
    depclean: yes

Status

Authors

  • William L Thomson Jr (@wltjr)

  • Yap Sok Ann (@sayap)

  • Andrew Udvare (@Tatsh)

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