Re: ebuild for Gentoo

Marco Paganini ([email protected]) wrote:

Hi!

> I'm totally ignorant when it comes to Gentoo. What's an ebuild? I
> suppose it's gentoo's native packaging system?

This is from the official doc:

<quote>
ebuild scripts are the basis for the entire portage system. They contain all
the information required to download, unpack, compile and install a set of
sources, as well as how to perform any optional pre/post install/removal or
configuration functions. While most of Portage is written in Python, the ebuild
scripts themselves are written in bash, since using bash allows us to call
commands as we would from the command-line. One of the important design
principles behind ebuild scripts is to have the commands therein be analogs of
those one would type on the command-line if installing the package manually.
For this purpose, having bash syntax is a good thing.  
</quote>

So, I'm pretty new to Gentoo and ebuilds although I put together one simple
ebuild for configure; make; make install program.

When I have time I'd certainly try to write "ask" ebuild, although I cannot
gurantee it will be good enough for official submitting at Gentoo's bugzilla.

Sincerely,
Gour

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Gour
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