From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCDKv-0002EP-6o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:50:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9B3EE05F4; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:50:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C69E05F4 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:50:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.75]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n54DoOuM022270 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:50:25 +0200 Received: from a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n54DoOuf030788; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:50:24 +0200 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.14.0/Submit) id n54DoO1H030783; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:50:24 +0200 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18983.53536.118504.303900@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:50:24 +0200 To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-pms] What is meant by "once the current phase function has returned"? X-Mailer: VM 8.0.2-487 under Emacs 22.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: 85398897-448f-47e9-9126-ec60dfd4f684 X-Archives-Hash: ec8ee28072e4b8ceb2a3cfaf3dcf6ab2 Hi, in the description of several commands (e.g., "has_version" and "best_version") I find the following sentence: ,---- | Ebuilds must not run any of these commands once the current phase | function has returned. `---- Can somebody please enlighten me what is meant by this? (The only explanation I could think of is that the ebuild should not background the command, but that seems very far-fetched. ;-) Ulrich