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From: "Göktürk Yüksek" <gokturk@××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-writing/variables: better describe ROOT
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 21:35:20
Message-Id: 57379A09.2010203@binghamton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-writing/variables: better describe ROOT by Mike Gilbert
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4 Mike Gilbert:
5 > The current description of ROOT makes no sense and just confuses
6 > people. The new description is paraphrased from PMS. ---
7 > ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3
8 > insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
9 >
10 > diff --git a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml
11 > b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml index ef15347..6ba6379 100644
12 > --- a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml +++
13 > b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml @@ -100,8 +100,9 @@ them. <tr>
14 > <ti><c>ROOT</c></ti> <ti> - Path to the root directory. When
15 > not using <c>${D}</c>, - always prepend <c>${ROOT}</c> to the
16 > path. + The absolute path to the root directory into which the
17 > package is to be merged. + Use this when refering to installed
18 > files in <c>pkg_*</c> functions. + Never use this in
19 > <c>src_*</c> functions. </ti> </tr> <tr>
20 >
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22 Sorry for the late reply. There is actually a bug for this issue [0].
23 I'll rebase the patch attached to the bug on top of yours if you have
24 no technical objections to the content.
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26 [0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144332
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