From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20767 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Jun 2003 23:03:31 -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 15196 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2003 23:03:31 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brett I. Holcomb" Reply-To: brettholcomb@charter.net Organization: Holcomb & Associates To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:08:21 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: <200306102247.39683.brian@mdrx.com> In-Reply-To: <200306102247.39683.brian@mdrx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild questions X-Archives-Salt: 73d80549-b1ef-4c9c-b8fa-84fdd26f9165 X-Archives-Hash: ea7e97c26edbe54812e25a079cc8035a Yes, thanks. I found it today. I thought I tried that list night but I bet I did man 1 ebuild! > # man 5 ebuild > is pretty up to date > other than that, I would just look through others that do something similar > and see how they do things > > --Brian > > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 08:49 pm, 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. -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list