portageq Command Examples

Query for information about Portage, the Gentoo Linux package manager. Queryable Portage-specific environment variables are listed in /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/info_vars. More information: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portageq.

• Display the value of a Portage-specific environment variable:

portageq envvar {{variable}}

• Display a detailed list of repositories configured with Portage:

portageq repos_config /

• Display a list of repositories sorted by priority (highest first):

portageq get_repos /

• Display a specific piece of metadata about an atom (i.e. package name including the version):

portageq metadata / {{ebuild|porttree|binary|...}} {{category}}/{{package}} {{BDEPEND|DEFINED_PHASES|DEPEND|...}}