Gentoo Archives: gentoo-commits

From: "Zac Medico (zmedico)" <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-commits@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-commits] portage r13489 - main/branches/2.1.6/man
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:06:17
Message-Id: E1LzQLW-0007JD-KA@stork.gentoo.org
1 Author: zmedico
2 Date: 2009-04-30 07:06:14 +0000 (Thu, 30 Apr 2009)
3 New Revision: 13489
4
5 Modified:
6 main/branches/2.1.6/man/portage.5
7 Log:
8 Move the /etc/portage categories and mirrors docs into alphabetical order.
9 (trunk r13324)
10
11 Modified: main/branches/2.1.6/man/portage.5
12 ===================================================================
13 --- main/branches/2.1.6/man/portage.5 2009-04-30 07:05:34 UTC (rev 13488)
14 +++ main/branches/2.1.6/man/portage.5 2009-04-30 07:06:14 UTC (rev 13489)
15 @@ -46,14 +46,14 @@
16 .BR /etc/portage/
17 .nf
18 bashrc
19 +categories
20 color.map
21 +mirrors
22 modules
23 package.keywords
24 package.mask
25 package.unmask
26 package.use
27 -mirrors
28 -categories
29 .fi
30 .TP
31 .BR /etc/portage/profile/
32 @@ -393,9 +393,51 @@
33 different from the standard root environment. The syntax is the same as for
34 any other bash script.
35 .TP
36 +.BR categories
37 +A simple list of valid categories that may be used in /usr/portage,
38 +PORTDIR_OVERLAY, and PKGDIR (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)). This allows for custom
39 +categories to be created.
40 +
41 +.I Format:
42 +.nf
43 +\- one category per line
44 +.fi
45 +
46 +.I Example:
47 +.nf
48 +app\-hackers
49 +media\-other
50 +.fi
51 +.TP
52 .BR color.map
53 Contains variables customizing colors. See \fBcolor.map\fR(5).
54 .TP
55 +.BR mirrors
56 +Whenever portage encounters a mirror:// style URL it will look up the actual
57 +hosts here. If the mirror set is not found here, it will check the global
58 +mirrors file at /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors. You may also set a
59 +special mirror type called "local". This list of mirrors will be checked
60 +before GENTOO_MIRRORS and will be used even if the package has
61 +RESTRICT="mirror" or RESTRICT="fetch".
62 +
63 +.I Format:
64 +.nf
65 +\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
66 +\- mirror type followed by a list of hosts
67 +.fi
68 +
69 +.I Example:
70 +.nf
71 +# local private mirrors used only by my company
72 +local ftp://192.168.0.3/mirrors/gentoo http://192.168.0.4/distfiles
73 +
74 +# people in japan would want to use the japanese mirror first
75 +sourceforge http://keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge
76 +
77 +# people in tawain would want to use the local gnu mirror first
78 +gnu ftp://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/UNIX/gnu/
79 +.fi
80 +.TP
81 .BR modules
82 This file can be used to override the metadata cache implementation. In
83 practice, portdbapi.auxdbmodule is the only variable that the user will want to
84 @@ -503,48 +545,6 @@
85 # disable mysql support for QT
86 x11\-libs/qt \-mysql
87 .fi
88 -.TP
89 -.BR mirrors
90 -Whenever portage encounters a mirror:// style URL it will look up the actual
91 -hosts here. If the mirror set is not found here, it will check the global
92 -mirrors file at /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors. You may also set a
93 -special mirror type called "local". This list of mirrors will be checked
94 -before GENTOO_MIRRORS and will be used even if the package has
95 -RESTRICT="mirror" or RESTRICT="fetch".
96 -
97 -.I Format:
98 -.nf
99 -\- comments begin with # (no inline comments)
100 -\- mirror type followed by a list of hosts
101 -.fi
102 -
103 -.I Example:
104 -.nf
105 -# local private mirrors used only by my company
106 -local ftp://192.168.0.3/mirrors/gentoo http://192.168.0.4/distfiles
107 -
108 -# people in japan would want to use the japanese mirror first
109 -sourceforge http://keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge
110 -
111 -# people in tawain would want to use the local gnu mirror first
112 -gnu ftp://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/UNIX/gnu/
113 -.fi
114 -.TP
115 -.BR categories
116 -A simple list of valid categories that may be used in /usr/portage,
117 -PORTDIR_OVERLAY, and PKGDIR (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)). This allows for custom
118 -categories to be created.
119 -
120 -.I Format:
121 -.nf
122 -\- one category per line
123 -.fi
124 -
125 -.I Example:
126 -.nf
127 -app\-hackers
128 -media\-other
129 -.fi
130 .RE
131 .TP
132 .BR /usr/portage/metadata/