This module implements the Gentoo binary packages class, which takes benefit from portage modules.
This module depends on portage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml
This class is to represent a Gentoo binary package endpoint using portage.
Extract the binary package content, without the metadata, into the dest_dir.
Parameters: | dest_dir – the extraction directory |
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Return type: | the root directory of the extracted content |
Read the metadata from the binary package and store them in the instance.
Return type: | the metadata dictionary |
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