e-file-py README

e-file-py is designed to be a Python replacement of e-file (however may not yet be an adequent replacement), a script of bones7456 to query Portage File List without opening a browser, which was broken since the PFL update.

Dependency

• >= Python 3.2

• Beautiful Soup 4

• (Optional, but preferred) A Gentoo system :-)

• (Optional, but highly recommended) Courage to face a million bugs

Usage

You happen to meet yet another lazy script author…​ Please ask e-file-py --help for help instead.

Examples

• Find packages containing a file named du:

  $ python3 e-file-py.py du

• Find packages containing a file named du and print as a raw category/package list:

  $ python3 e-file-py.py --fmtstrset raw_uniq du

• Find packages containing a file named du with detailed version information:

  $ python3 e-file-py.py -U du

• Find packages containing a file named du with detailed version information and print as a raw category/package-version list:

  $ python3 e-file-py.py --fmtstrset raw_allver -U du

• List the contents of sys-apps/coreutils-8.16:

  # The following commands work on Gentoo systems only
  $ python3 e-file-py.py -l sys-apps/coreutils-8.16
  $ python3 e-file-py.py -l coreutils-8.16

  # The following command works on non-Gentoo systems, too
  $ python3 e-file-py.py -l sys-apps coreutils 8.16

• List all recorded versions of sys-apps/coreutils:

  # The following command works on Gentoo systems only
  $ python3 e-file-py.py -L coreutils

  # The following command works on non-Gentoo systems, too
  $ python3 e-file-py.py -L sys-apps/coreutils

FAQ

To be written…​