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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:46:05 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
From: Jon Griffin <jong@e88.org>
Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] Directory create in ebuilds
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Thanks,
Now I know where to look.

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:41:08 -0700 George Shapovalov <georges@its.caltech.edu> wrote:

> dodir /etc/logcheck
> also please check the contents of /usr/lib/portage/bin/ for what's
> available 
> (such as dobin, dodoc ...).
> You should be using these instead of direct mkdir, cp, mv...
> 
> Sometimes you may want to do something nonstandsrd or may be some
> recursive 
> task and it may be desireble to do cp -r someplace omeother_place. In
> any 
> case, *do not* perform any such operation on a "live sustem", that is
> right 
> under /usr or whereever. Use ${D}/usr/what/ever instead. ${D} will point
> to 
> the right place, where package gets installed before merging in.
>   Also, it would be usefull to read some doc on sandbox'ing. This is
> mentioned 
> in developer docs on gentoo.org, "man emerge" and "man ebuild" should
> also 
> help.
> 
> George
>