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On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> Mike Gilbert: |
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>> The current description of ROOT makes no sense and just confuses |
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>> people. The new description is paraphrased from PMS. --- |
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>> ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 |
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>> insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) |
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>> |
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>> diff --git a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml |
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>> b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml index ef15347..6ba6379 100644 |
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>> --- a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml +++ |
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>> b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml @@ -100,8 +100,9 @@ them. <tr> |
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>> <ti><c>ROOT</c></ti> <ti> - Path to the root directory. When |
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>> not using <c>${D}</c>, - always prepend <c>${ROOT}</c> to the |
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>> path. + The absolute path to the root directory into which the |
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>> package is to be merged. + Use this when refering to installed |
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>> files in <c>pkg_*</c> functions. + Never use this in |
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>> <c>src_*</c> functions. </ti> </tr> <tr> |
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>> |
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> |
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> Sorry for the late reply. There is actually a bug for this issue [0]. |
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> I'll rebase the patch attached to the bug on top of yours if you have |
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> no technical objections to the content. |
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> |
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> [0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144332 |
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The expanded explanation seems useful indeed. |
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