Re: [gentoo-dev] questions of semantics in ebuild.sh

[Donnie Berkholz]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 09:16, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2004 08:02, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 January 2004 13:18, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > > whole.  Remember that Gentoo now also has support for binary packages,
> > > along with building straight from source.  The pkg_ steps are common
> > > to both packages and source, whereas the src_ steps are for source
> > > builds only.
> >
> > Actually gentoo has supported binary packages since before I started
> > using it which is 2 years ago.
>
> that may be but chris is still right ... the src_ functions arent run when you
> emerge a binary package
> -mike

Basically my understanding is src_* should only affect things in
${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}, while pkg_* modifies the live filesystem. As a
result, pkg_* is the only thing used for binaries, while both are used
for source builds.

Donnie