On March 11, 2012 at 4:27 PM Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:37:26 -0400 (EDT) > Daddy <da...@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote: > > > 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.mckin...@gmail.com The ebuild in my local overlay that evolved from an official one has EAPI=2 But when I issue "some.ebuild" it has EAPI=3 on this box. And iirc another of my boxen has EAPI=4. Yes, much studying yet to be done.
