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# About
**metagen** is a command line utility to ease generation of
[`metadata.xml` files](https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/metadata/index.html)
for Gentoo packages.
It is licensed under the
[GPL v2 license](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html)
and hosted at
[gitweb.gentoo.org](https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/metagen.git/).
Please use [Gentoo's Bugzilla](https://bugs.gentoo.org/)
to report bugs about **metagen**.
# Example
```
# metagen -e 'somebody@gentoo.org' -n 'Some Body' -t person -f -q
./metadata.xml written
# cat metadata.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM 'https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd'>
<pkgmetadata>
<maintainer type="person">
<email>somebody@gentoo.org</email>
<name>Some Body</name>
</maintainer>
</pkgmetadata>
```
# Usage
```
# COLUMNS=80 metagen --help
usage: metagen [-h] [--version] [--email EMAIL] [--name NAME] [--echangelog]
[--desc DESC] [--type TYPE] [--long LONG] [--output OUTPUT]
[--force] [--verbose] [--quiet] [-Q]
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--version show program's version number and exit
maintainer arguments:
--email EMAIL, -e EMAIL
Maintainer's email address
--name NAME, -n NAME Maintainer's name
--echangelog, -m Use name and email address from ECHANGELOG_USER
environmental variable. This is a shortcut for -e
<email> -n <name>
--desc DESC, -d DESC Description of maintainership
--type TYPE, -t TYPE Maintainer type as of GLEP 67; valid values are:
"person", "project", "unknown"
package arguments:
--long LONG, -l LONG Long description of package.
operation arguments:
--output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
Specify location of output file.
--force, -f Force overwrite of existing metadata.
--verbose, -v Verbose. Output of file to stdout. (default)
--quiet, -q Squelch output of file to stdout.
-Q Do not write file to disk.
```
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