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On 09/21/04 Tamas Sarga wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to create ebuilds, but I can't find any good documentation
> about helper functions.
> For example I heard about PATCH_ATTRIBUTES or such variable, what is
> used by epatch, but I can't find it anywhere in the gentoo.org doc
> section. Where should I search for these type of docs?

Offhand I'd say your best chance is in the eclasses themself, not
everything is documented (especially when it comes to functions from
eclasses).

MfG Marius

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On Tuesday 21 September 2004 10:08 am, Tamas Sarga wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to create ebuilds, but I can't find any good documentation
> about helper functions.
> For example I heard about PATCH_ATTRIBUTES or such variable, what is
> used by epatch, but I can't find it anywhere in the gentoo.org doc
> section. Where should I search for these type of docs?

ebuild howto (also documents some helper functions):
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1
eclass howto:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=2

Greets,
Christian Parpart.

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Tamas Sarga wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I'd like to create ebuilds, but I can't find any good documentation
| about helper functions.
| For example I heard about PATCH_ATTRIBUTES or such variable, what is
| used by epatch, but I can't find it anywhere in the gentoo.org doc
| section. Where should I search for these type of docs?

Someone has already mentioned the Dev Handbook.

There's also

man 5 ebuild (my personal favorite)

and there are quite a few eclass manual pages (not nearly as many
eclasses though), but as genone mentioned it's a lot more informational
to read the code itself. 'slocate eclass.5' should give you a nice list
of those with manual pages.

Also, check out ${PORTDIR}/skel.ebuild. It shows a skeleton ebuild and
has *lots* of comments to go with everything.

Cheers
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