From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0362F1381F3 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:50:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A694E0A4F; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:50:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22002E0A4F for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:50:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hornbill.gentoo.org (hornbill.gentoo.org [94.100.119.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BEB633EB9C for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:50:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hornbill.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF05E468F for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:50:07 +0000 (UTC) From: "Johann Schmitz" To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, "Johann Schmitz" Message-ID: <1377265793.8d717dda93e8a9a5425ff9e4fe194f1df946d15f.ercpe@gentoo> Subject: [gentoo-commits] proj/devmanual:master commit in: ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/ X-VCS-Repository: proj/devmanual X-VCS-Files: ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml X-VCS-Directories: ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/ X-VCS-Committer: ercpe X-VCS-Committer-Name: Johann Schmitz X-VCS-Revision: 8d717dda93e8a9a5425ff9e4fe194f1df946d15f X-VCS-Branch: master Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 960ab9ce-9d62-4828-91f4-c44ddd7cd144 X-Archives-Hash: 0fa646c75b98aa1992617da85936d6fa commit: 8d717dda93e8a9a5425ff9e4fe194f1df946d15f Author: Johann Schmitz gentoo org> AuthorDate: Fri Aug 23 13:49:53 2013 +0000 Commit: Johann Schmitz gentoo org> CommitDate: Fri Aug 23 13:49:53 2013 +0000 URL: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/devmanual.git;a=commit;h=8d717dda Linked the mirror page from the ebuild maintenance page. Reworded the surrounding sentence to remove the ambiguity regarding the place of the patch tarballs. --- ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml b/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml index c228074..4b57815 100644 --- a/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml +++ b/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml @@ -38,8 +38,9 @@ files, such as patches or sample configuration files. These types of files should be placed in the /usr/portage/mycat/mypkg/files directory to keep the main mycat/mypkg directory uncluttered. Exceptions to this rule are for larger patch files (we recommend this for patches -above 20KB) which should be put onto the Gentoo mirrors so that people -do not waste excessive amounts of bandwidth and hard drive +above 20KB) which should be distributed as tarballs via the +Gentoo mirror system +so that people do not waste excessive amounts of bandwidth and hard drive space. Also, you should not add binary (non-ASCII) files to the Portage CVS tree. If you need to do this in another CVS tree, for example, if you need to add a small PNG graphic for whatever reason,