On 2021-01-07 10:26+0000 Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 17:07:36 +0800, Kevin Shell wrote: > > > > emerge is the high level command normally used by users to manage > > > packages. ebuild is only used for installing and removing > > > packages, emerge does a lot more besides, and is a more low level > > > command. ebuild.sh is for use by portage, bit by users. > > > > > Is ebuild(1) meant for standalone use and not used by emerge(1)? > > I know ebuild.sh is used by emerge(1). > > Yes it is, I guess that's why it has a man page and ebuild.sh doesn't. > > However, in normal use of a Gentoo system, it shouldn't be needed. > However, it can come in handy if you have to abort a lengthy ebuild > and don't want to start over.
In that case I'd recommend:
sudo FEATURES="keepwork keeptemp" emerge --resume
keepwork disables most of the clean phase.
ebuild(1) is useful for package maintainers to check if a package is
installing correctly and if the tests run successfully before pushing
it to a repository.
You could also use it to install packages that are not in a repository,
but I wouldn't recommend it.
Kind regards, tastytea
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