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Hi Mishal, |
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Let's keep the discussion public on the gentoo-soc mailing list. |
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Mishal Roy <roymishal210@×××××.com> writes: |
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> Portage is the package manager for Gentoo. The software package in |
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> Portage Systems is usually just source code. However some compiled |
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> files exist. |
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> Portage is made up of two parts emerge and ebuilds. Emerge acts as an |
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> interface to the Portage System. Emerge primarily installs packages |
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> and handles any dependencies that the desired package has. Ebuilds are |
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> scripts that compile and install the packages. Ebuilds contain |
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> metadata about the software that is software name, software |
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> licence,homepage,build time and run time dependencies. Ebuilds also |
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> contain instructions to configure,build,install,test the software. |
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Thanks they are correct. But it is not the point. I did not mean to |
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give a quiz on what portage and ebuild are. I encourage you to try out |
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gentoo[1, 2] to gain first-hand experience with portage and ebuild, and |
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show your skills by fixing some easy bugs. |
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Cheers, |
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Benda |
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1. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64 |
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2. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix |
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