Portage

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Also see: Gentoo | Package manager

Originally made for Gentoo. Recently ported to *BSD.

Portage is a true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports, but is Python-based and sports a number of advanced features including dependencies, fine-grained package management, "fake" (OpenBSD-style) installs, path sandboxing, safe unmerging, system profiles, virtual packages, config file management, and more.

Documentation

• Portage User Guide
• (Extended) Portage Manual
• A 'walk' through the Portage code
• Using OpenBSD or FreeBSD together with Portage.

Tools & Frontends

• Kemerge - KDE / GUI frontend to Portage tools.
• KPortage - another KDE / GUI frontend for Portage.
• gportage - a GUI / GTK frontend for Portage. Uses Python.
• rtkmerge - GUI / TK frontend for Portage. Uses Ruby.
• portageMaster - Java / GUI frontend for Portage.
• cfgupdate - Perl / CLI script to manage .cfg??? files created by Portage.
• Genlop - Perl / CLI script which shows in colored output emerged packages by invoking /var/log/emerge.log
• ESearch - fast replacement for 'emerge -s'
• Porthole - Replacement for gportage
• Guitoo - yet another KDE frontend to Gentoo Portage