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.\" Contact pythonhead@gentoo.org to correct errors or omissions.
.TH man 1 "22 August 2004" "1.0" "metagen man page"
.SH NAME
.B metagen
\- generate metadata.xml for ebuilds
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B metagen
[options]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B metagen
will create a valid metadata.xml file in the current directory. metadata.xml requires a herd tag (-H). If you only specify a package maintainer's email address (-e) "no-herd" will be inserted in the herd tag automatically.
If you need multiple elements, such as two herds, use a comma to
separate them. See EXAMPLES.
.SH OPTIONS
.\" metagen [OPTIONS]
-H herd
Name of herd.
-e email-address
Package maintainer's email address
-n maintainer-name
Package maintainer's name (used with -e option)
-m
Uses ECHANGELOG_USER variable. Can be used instead of -e and -n
-d description
Description of maintainership (used with -e option)
-l long-description
Long description of package.
-o output-file
Write to <output-file> instead of ./metadata.xml
-f
Force overwrite of existing metadata
-v
Write to stdout as well as disk (default)
-q
Don't write to stdout
-Q
Don't write file to disk
-h, --help show this help message and exit
.SH EXAMPLES
.B metagen -H python
Creates metadata.xml in current directory with python as the herd
.B metagen -H python,wxwidgets \
-l 'This package does a little of this and some o dat.'
Creates metadata in current directory with two herds and long description
.B metagen -e pythonhead@gentoo.org \
-n 'Joe Blow' \
-d 'The voices in my head told me to maintain this package' \
-Q
herd='no-herd', maintainer email, maintainer name, description of maintainership, to stdout only
.B metagen -H net-p2p,python -e jo@gentoo.org,flo@gentoo.org \
-n 'Jo Blo','Flo Blo' \
-d 'I am maintaining this because foo','I am maintaining this because bar' \
-l 'This package is yadda yadda yadda, spam and eggs' \
-Q
2 herds, 2 maintainers with names and maintainer descriptions for each maintainer,
only write to stdout
.SH FILES
.P
.I /usr/bin/metagen
.I /usr/share/man/man1/metagen.1.gz
.SH BUGS
No known bugs at this time.
.SH AUTHOR
.nf
Rob 'pythonhead' Cakebread (pythonhead@gentoo.org)
.fi
.SH HISTORY
2004 \- Initial revision
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