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emaint [options] [all | binhost | cleanresume | merges | movebin | moveinst | sync | world]

The emaint program provides a command line interface to package management health checks and maintenance.

all

Perform all supported commands that accept the specified option.

binhost

Generate a metadata index for binary packages located in PKGDIR (for download by remote clients). See the PORTAGE_BINHOST documentation in the make.conf(5) man page for additional information.
OPTIONS: check, fix

cleanconfmem

Discard no longer installed config tracker entries.
OPTIONS: check, fix

cleanresume

Discard merge lists saved for the emerge(1) --resume action.
OPTIONS: check, fix

logs

Clean out old logs from the PORTAGE_LOGDIR using the command PORTAGE_LOGDIR_CLEAN. See the make.conf(5) man page for additional information as well as enabling the 'clean-logs' feature in emerge to do this automatically.
OPTIONS: check, clean

merges

Scan for failed package merges and attempt to fix those failed packages.
OPTIONS: check, fix, purge

movebin

Perform package move updates for binary packages located in PKGDIR.
OPTIONS: check, fix

moveinst

Perform package move updates for installed packages.
OPTIONS: check, fix

sync

Perform sync actions on specified repositories.
OPTIONS: allrepos, auto, repo

world

Fix problems in the world file.
OPTIONS: check, fix

-c,  --check

Check for any problems that may exist.

-f,  --fix

Fix any problems that may exist.

-C,  --clean

Cleans the logs from PORTAGE_LOGDIR

-p,  --pretend

Sets pretend mode (same as -c, --check) for use with the -C, --clean OPTION

-t NUM, --time NUM

Changes the minimum age NUM (in days) of the logs to be listed or deleted.

-a,  --auto

Sync repositories which have their auto-sync setting set yes, true.

-A,  --allrepos

Sync all repositories which have a sync-uri specified.

-r,  --repo REPO

Sync the repository specified.

--sync-submodule <glsa|news|profiles>

Restrict sync to the specified submodule(s). This option may be specified multiple times, in order to sync multiple submodules. Currently, this option has no effect for sync protocols other than rsync.

Please report bugs via https://bugs.gentoo.org/

Pavel Kazakov <nullishzero@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org>

/var/lib/portage/world

Contains a list of all user-specified packages.

/var/lib/portage/config

Contains the paths and md5sums of all the config files being tracked.

/var/lib/portage/failed-merges

Contains the packages and timestamps of any failed merges being cleaned from the system, and to be re-emerged.

emerge(1), portage(5)

emerge(1), fixpackages(1).