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.\" Contact neurogeek@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.

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

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)
Jesus Rivero (neurogeek@gentoo.org)
.fi
.SH HISTORY
2004 \- Initial revision