Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:30:20
Message-Id: 1357766970.5230.10.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information by Pacho Ramos
1 El mié, 09-01-2013 a las 22:15 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
2 > El mié, 09-01-2013 a las 12:04 -0800, Zac Medico escribió:
3 > > On 01/09/2013 11:53 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
4 > > > This changes the name of eclass to readme.gentoo.eclass and gets
5 > > > information from ${FILESDIR}/README.gentoo
6 > >
7 > > What if there are multiple versions/slots that have different
8 > > README.gentoo content? Maybe the eclass should accommodate that somehow?
9 >
10 > I would go for versioning it as "${FILESDIR}"/README.gentoo-${PV} but,
11 > in that case, I wouldn't know how to make it pick "major"
12 > README.gentoo-${PV} to prevent people from needing to have one
13 > README.gentoo-${PV} per version :S
14 >
15 >
16 > Different slots shouldn't need any special handling as their docs should
17 > be installed in their docdir/${PF}
18 >
19 > But the anterior "variable idea" looks to solve this problem much
20 > better :|
21
22 Maybe the best option would be to:
23 1. At first look for variable in ebuild
24 2. If not set, look for ${FILESDIR}/README.gentoo

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