From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23140 invoked by uid 1002); 12 Jul 2003 01:52:28 -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 18312 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2003 01:52:28 -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: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:58:03 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild questions X-Archives-Salt: 3f684e90-0c74-499e-ba9d-a4c988d7712c X-Archives-Hash: 8d8b4ce023fb21b2ad1469cb7852e212 I've been working on creating an ebuild this week and after working with it I have some questions about how ebuilds work. 1. I assume that if I add no functions to an ebuild the process is A) src_unpack, B) src_compile, C) src_install. In other words there are three steps or functions that will be executed. If I desire I can make my own functions for these but if I don't I get these three steps executed by emerge. 2. What is the best way to let the user know what's happening - for example, "compiling xyz module now". I notice some builds use einfo to put out messages about what you have to do after install (add user to groups, etc). Are there specific ebuild functions I should use or are plain old echo statements okay? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list