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Good afternoon. |
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I know there's a new ebuild freeze (at least I think that's still the |
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case), but I thought this might interest some of you. Ebuilder is kind |
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of like mkebuild on steroids (ebuilder was, in fact, inspired by |
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mkebuild and uses a little bit of the code). It allows you to |
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interactively build a package *very* quickly (you can very often just |
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hit enter to proceed without having to fill anything in), giving you |
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reasonbly intelligent defaults. It has support for Python's Distutils, |
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has customizable templates (located in ~/.ebuilder/templates after |
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you've run ebuilder for the first time), and a config utility so you |
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don't have to edit the config file by hand. There are currently two |
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templates: one for beginners (this template is based on skel.ebuild) and |
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one for people who want the bare bones. The config utility asks you |
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which one you'd prefer to use. You are also prompted to insert some of |
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the lesser used ebuild methods such as pkg_preinst() and the like when |
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you are creating your ebuild. |
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Caveat: the ebuilder-0.2.ebuild required customization in the |
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src_install() method, but that's it. Currently there is no support for |
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using the likes of dosbin, dodir, etc. However, the package archive is |
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searched for files commonly installed in /usr/share/doc/... and will put |
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those into the ebuild file for you. |
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This is probably a good candidate for gentoolkit. |
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Have fun. |
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zach |
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P.S. If the ebuild freeze is over, please let me know so I can submit |
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this to bugzilla. |
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