From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18080 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Jun 2003 06:25:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31562 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2003 06:25:39 -0000 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:29:45 -0400 From: Kumba In-reply-to: To: brettholcomb@charter.net Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: kumba@gentoo.org Message-id: <3EE6CC59.90002@gentoo.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 References: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild questions X-Archives-Salt: 69b050a0-f481-413c-b776-81684705a62c X-Archives-Hash: 3dcae5c539674fab809f7b059bda9b01 I think this question is more geared towards gentoo-user, but ${PV} and ${PN} are offshoots of ${P}. Basically, if ${P} stands for "Package Name & Version", then ${PV} and ${PN} hold the Version and Name of the package specifically. Others of note are ${A}, which I believe is the archive (i.e., the tarball), ${S} for Source Directory. ${WORKDIR} and ${FILESDIR} and ${DISTFILES} should all be self-explanatory (I think ${DISTFILES} exists). As for additional documentation on these, they might be in the other docs, but you probably will have to just study random ebuilds. --Kumba Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > If this is the wrong list for this question please tell me where to move it > but it doesn't seem to fit gentoo-user or any of the others. > > I want to do an ebuild for some programs but have never done one. I've read > the Gentoo docs on ebuilds and eclasses and the man pages for ebuild. > However, in looking at some ebuilds - noticably flight gear and wine-cvs I > see variables such a $PV defined. The docs mention $P but not $PV or other > variables. I've browsed some of the eclasses trying to find the definitions > and haven't been successful. Where are these explained. Are there any more > docs I can read? > > Thanks. > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list