[gentoo-dev] ebuilder...

[gentoo-dev] ebuilder...

[Zach Forrest]

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Good afternoon.

I know there's a new ebuild freeze (at least I think that's still the 
case), but I thought this might interest some of you. Ebuilder is kind 
of like mkebuild on steroids (ebuilder was, in fact, inspired by 
mkebuild and uses a little bit of the code). It allows you to 
interactively build a package *very* quickly (you can very often just 
hit enter to proceed without having to fill anything in), giving you 
reasonbly intelligent defaults. It has support for Python's Distutils, 
has customizable templates (located in ~/.ebuilder/templates after 
you've run ebuilder for the first time), and a config utility so you 
don't have to edit the config file by hand. There are currently two 
templates: one for beginners (this template is based on skel.ebuild) and 
one for people who want the bare bones. The config utility asks you 
which one you'd prefer to use. You are also prompted to insert some of 
the lesser used ebuild methods such as pkg_preinst() and the like when 
you are creating your ebuild.

Caveat: the ebuilder-0.2.ebuild required customization in the 
src_install() method, but that's it. Currently there is no support for 
using the likes of dosbin, dodir, etc. However, the package archive is 
searched for files commonly installed in /usr/share/doc/... and will put 
those into the ebuild file for you.

This is probably a good candidate for gentoolkit.

Have fun.

zach

P.S. If the ebuild freeze is over, please let me know so I can submit 
this to bugzilla.

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# Copyright 1999-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
# Maintainer: Zach Forrest <zach@disinformation.ca>
# /space/gentoo/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/skel.ebuild,v 1.4 2002/03/12 16:05:09 tod Exp

# This ebuild was generated by Ebuilder v0.2.

S="${WORKDIR}/${P}"
DESCRIPTION="Package Builder for Gentoo Linux"
SRC_URI="http://www.disinformation.ca/gentoo/${P}.tar.gz"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.disinformation.ca/gentoo"
DEPEND=""
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"

src_compile() {
	echo "Nothing to compile for ${P}."
}

src_install () {
	dodir /usr/share/ebuilder
	dodir /usr/share/ebuilder/templates

	insinto /usr/share/ebuilder/templates
	doins templates/beginner.ebuild
	doins templates/expert.ebuild

	dosbin ebuilder

	# Install documentation.
	dodoc AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README TODO
}

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