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NAME
metagen - generate metadata.xml for ebuilds

SYNOPSIS
metagen [options]

DESCRIPTION
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.

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

EXAMPLES
metagen -H python Creates metadata.xml in current directory with python as the herd 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 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 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

FILES

/usr/bin/metagen /usr/share/man/man1/metagen.1.gz

BUGS
No known bugs at this time.

AUTHOR
Rob 'pythonhead' Cakebread (pythonhead@gentoo.org)

HISTORY
2004 - Initial revision