Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] please explain use of hooks

2008-03-02 Thread Jonas Bernoulli
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When portage is installed with USE=doc enabled, you'll find that there is a small Ebuild Phase Hooks section in the first chapter of the html documentation. thx. I never bothered looking there as I have always assumed that

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] please explain use of hooks

2008-03-02 Thread Marius Mauch
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.

[gentoo-portage-dev] please explain use of hooks

2008-03-01 Thread Jonas Bernoulli
Hello I was aware that the alternative package managers provide hooks for some time now, but only found out recently that portage also has this feature. Unfortunately I was not able to find any documentation about it. I found some information related to hooks in portage on this list and elsewhere

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] please explain use of hooks

2008-03-01 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonas Bernoulli wrote: So what I am looking for is a tutorial along the lines howto write you first portage hook function. Of course a more in-depth description would also be welcome. If something like this already exists I apologize for not