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From: "Sven Vermeulen (swift)" <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc-cvs@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook: hb-working-variables.xml
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:03:10
Message-Id: 20120629154154.9931D2004B@flycatcher.gentoo.org
1 swift 12/06/29 15:41:54
2
3 Modified: hb-working-variables.xml
4 Log:
5 Fix bug #414801 - Add blurb about COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED. Thanks to "lynx" for reporting and suggesting the fix
6
7 Revision Changes Path
8 1.23 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml
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10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml?rev=1.23&view=markup
11 plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml?rev=1.23&content-type=text/plain
12 diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml?r1=1.22&r2=1.23
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14 Index: hb-working-variables.xml
15 ===================================================================
16 RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml,v
17 retrieving revision 1.22
18 retrieving revision 1.23
19 diff -u -r1.22 -r1.23
20 --- hb-working-variables.xml 19 May 2007 04:13:46 -0000 1.22
21 +++ hb-working-variables.xml 29 Jun 2012 15:41:54 -0000 1.23
22 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
23 <!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
24 <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
25
26 -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml,v 1.22 2007/05/19 04:13:46 nightmorph Exp $ -->
27 +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml,v 1.23 2012/06/29 15:41:54 swift Exp $ -->
28
29 <sections>
30
31 @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
32 variables.
33 </abstract>
34
35 -<version>1.16</version>
36 -<date>2007-05-18</date>
37 +<version>2</version>
38 +<date>2012-06-29</date>
39
40 <section>
41 <title>Environment Variables?</title>
42 @@ -231,14 +231,22 @@
43
44 <p>
45 The concatenation of variables does not always happen, only with the following
46 -variables: <c>KDEDIRS</c>, <c>PATH</c>, <c>LDPATH</c>, <c>MANPATH</c>,
47 +variables: <c>ADA_INCLUDE_PATH</c>, <c>ADA_OBJECTS_PATH</c>, <c>CLASSPATH</c>,
48 +<c>KDEDIRS</c>, <c>PATH</c>, <c>LDPATH</c>, <c>MANPATH</c>,
49 <c>INFODIR</c>, <c>INFOPATH</c>, <c>ROOTPATH</c>, <c>CONFIG_PROTECT</c>,
50 -<c>CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK</c>, <c>PRELINK_PATH</c> and <c>PRELINK_PATH_MASK</c>.
51 +<c>CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK</c>, <c>PRELINK_PATH</c>, <c>PRELINK_PATH_MASK</c>,
52 +<c>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</c> and <c>PYTHONPATH</c>.
53 For all other variables the latest defined value (in alphabetical order of the
54 files in <path>/etc/env.d</path>) is used.
55 </p>
56
57 <p>
58 +You can add more variables into this list of concatenate-variables by adding the
59 +variable name to either <c>COLON_SEPARATED</c> or <c>SPACE_SEPARATED</c>
60 +variables (also inside an env.d file).
61 +</p>
62 +
63 +<p>
64 When you run <c>env-update</c>, the script will create all environment variables
65 and place them in <path>/etc/profile.env</path> (which is used by
66 <path>/etc/profile</path>). It will also extract the information from the