EMAINT(1)

NAME
emaint - performs package management related system health checks and maintenance

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

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

COMMANDS

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

DEFAULT OPTIONS (Not supported in all commands)

-c, --check
    Check for any problems that may exist.

-f, --fix
    Fix any problems that may exist.

OPTIONS logs command only

-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.

OPTIONS merges command only

-y, --yes
    Do not prompt for emerge invocations.

OPTIONS sync command only

-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.

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

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

FILES

/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.

SEE ALSO
emerge(1), portage(5)