README.md

vardbpkg

A Rust library to parse and search the Gentoo Linux Portage Package installed database /var/db/pkg.

Usage

use vardbpkg::parse_vardb;
use std::path::Path;

fn main() {
    let packages = parse_vardb(Path::new("/var/db/pkg"));

    for pkg in packages {
        println!("{}/{}: {}", pkg.category, pkg.package, pkg.description);
    }
}

Examples

vardbpkg2json

The library includes an example tool vardbpkg2json that converts the Portage database to JSON format.

cargo run --example vardbpkg2json -- /var/db/pkg

If no directory is specified, it defaults to /var/db/pkg.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.