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From: Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] doc_about_ebuild_functions
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:33:17
Message-Id: 4150038B.4070601@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] doc_about_ebuild_functions by Tamas Sarga
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4 Tamas Sarga wrote:
5 | Hi,
6 |
7 | I'd like to create ebuilds, but I can't find any good documentation
8 | about helper functions.
9 | For example I heard about PATCH_ATTRIBUTES or such variable, what is
10 | used by epatch, but I can't find it anywhere in the gentoo.org doc
11 | section. Where should I search for these type of docs?
12
13 Someone has already mentioned the Dev Handbook.
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15 There's also
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17 man 5 ebuild (my personal favorite)
18
19 and there are quite a few eclass manual pages (not nearly as many
20 eclasses though), but as genone mentioned it's a lot more informational
21 to read the code itself. 'slocate eclass.5' should give you a nice list
22 of those with manual pages.
23
24 Also, check out ${PORTDIR}/skel.ebuild. It shows a skeleton ebuild and
25 has *lots* of comments to go with everything.
26
27 Cheers
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30
31 Aaron Walker - Gentoo Developer [ Gentoo/BSD / forensics herd ]
32 ka0ttic@g.o http://dev.gentoo.org/~ka0ttic/
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