Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:07:37 -0400 (EDT)
Daddy <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:

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> On March 11, 2012 at 4:27 PM Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
> wrote:
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> > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:37:26 -0400 (EDT)
> > Daddy <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
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> > > We have spare parts so tomorrow I'll build a test machine. My
> > > Gentoo knowledge is quite limited, seeing as how we moved back
> > > after 9 years and had to start life over. But I can start by
> > > following this guide, and probably reading and learning about
> > > ebuilds. They're quite different from Slackware's build scripts,
> > > primarily due to dependency checking, etc.
> >
> > Once you've got the hang of building a Gentoo system from scratch,
> > the best thing you can do is read all the man pages from portage
> > and seeing how that compares to what's in simple ebuilds.
> >
> > ebuilds are quite straightforward, they all have a "global" section
> > (my phrase) defining various constants, and code sections for
> > fetching, unpacking, compiling, installing sources and the files to
> > the live system. Quite simple in concept.
> >
> > The fun starts when ebuilds work fine and the dev's machine and get
> > published, but don;t do quite the same thing on your machine :-)
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Alan McKinnnon
> > alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
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> The ebuild in my local overlay that evolved from an official one has
> EAPI=2
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> But when I issue "some.ebuild" it has EAPI=3 on this box. And iirc
> another of my boxen has EAPI=4.
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> Yes, much studying yet to be done.

Possibly you forked package-1.0 and your ebuild is still at that
version.

The official meanwhile has moved on to versions package-1.1 and
package-1.2; those will take preference over your local ebuild
regardless of precedence order of overlays (i.e. version number always
wins, repo is secondary) 

-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com