On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 11:18:39 +0100 "Jonas Bernoulli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And if not the handbook this should really go into the portage > manpage. > > bashrc > > If needed, this file can be used to set up a > special environment for ebuilds, different from > the standard root environment. The syntax is the > same as for any other bash script. > + One thing you can do here is define phase hooks. > + A phase hook function name begins with a pre_ or post_ prefix to > indicate that it will be called before or after one of the ebuild > phases. The prefix is followed by the name of the ebuild function that > the hook will be associated with. + For example, a hook named > pre_src_compile will be called before src_compile, and a hook named > post_src_compile will be called after src_compile. Care to write a patch? (nobody likes to edit manpages) > postsync.d should also be documented there. No, as it isn't used by portage itself. > All in all now that I have looked at the documentation installed with > portage I think it is obsolete. Not in the sense that it is outdated > but everything in it is documented elsewhere already or should be > moved there. Well, it's horribly incomplete and a work in progress. Eventually it will replace the manpages (in the sense that manpages will be generated from the same source). And authorative documentation (which isn't exactly the same as a specification) should be kept with the implementation, and that's not the case with the dev handbook/manual. > If some developers an the list agree with me and welcome me to do so > then I could file a bug(s) for those changes. No. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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