This website is a search engine for packages in the public repositories (main tree, plus overlays) of Gentoo Linux.
It also provides mirroring (http, rsync) for all the tracked files.
If it's your first visit, you might be interested in getting some information at the bottom of this page.
The search uses (PCRE, case insensitive) regular expressions. If you need help with that, you can consult this information page.
Today (2012-05-20), I can count 24910 unique packages in the database (55989 including the different versions for packages)
(2009-07-18) : update, after a server reboot, I forgot to mount the cache directory so the DB did not contain a lot...
Some fixes, and preliminary support for internationalization of package and category descriptions... however, since nothing is filled, I keep on using only english.
(2009-12-13) : g.z.o is 2 years old !
I'm updating some stuff (repository links, installation of mercurial, which was preventing some overlays to work) as I put this note.
| Category | Description |
If you have trouble with any of the software, please consult their homepage and report bugs.
It's very important and helpful for anyone.
If your problem happens on the installation of a package, you can consult check the repository homepage or contact information.
For instance, the Gentoo main tree has a bug tracker at bugs.gentoo.org.
Sometimes, you want features that you know are provided by an in-development version of a program, and are accessed using revision control software.
Packages with the "9999" version use RCS to fetch the latest version of the software.
When you emerge one of them, you have to keep in mind that you won't be bugged of updates when you sync your repositories information.
Like the famous packages.gentoo.org, the goal is to list and enable the search of the packages available through emerge, but this indexer also tries to include the information of every overlay listed on the public gentoo overlays.
The gentoo overlays contain a lot of unstable packages but also a lot of useful packages.
The site was created on the 2007-12-13 (or something like that).
This website was created following the observation that it's hard to find packages, especially when they are not in the main gentoo repository.
If you seek something prettier for packages browsing, have a look at http://gpo.zugaina.org/, which is a customization of the pretty gentoo-portage.com and existed before mine, but I was not aware of that.
You also have the in-development ebuildfind.
I made this site from scratch with the objective of having a simple, ad-free, fast and powerful search engine and packages catalog.
This site provides searchplugins for Mozilla Firefox (search by description, reverse dependencies) and it's not too hard to make other browsers search with this site.
It's also made to ease referring from wiki pages, with interwiki. Just look at the adress bar when browsing a category/package..
TODO : If you can think of an useful functionality you want in here, tell me. A good place for this is in the wiki or in this forum thread .
This site is a community site, it was made to help Gentoo users but is not officially supported ; it is not part of the Gentoo project.
As you can see, the website does not closely mimic the name or layout of one of Gentoo official websites.
Or, actually, any website ;)
The name "Gentoo" is a trademark of Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
The "g" logo (favicon) is a trademark of Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
This site is an indexer, it contains data from the Gentoo ebuilds.
I have written none of them.
This website is provided "as-is".
Gentoo rox.
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