[gentoo-soc] Re: Application for Google Summer of Code 2018- Mishal Roy

[gentoo-soc] Re: Application for Google Summer of Code 2018- Mishal Roy

[Benda Xu]

Hi Mishal,

Let's keep the discussion public on the gentoo-soc mailing list.

Mishal Roy <roymishal210@gmail.com> writes:

> Portage is the package manager for Gentoo. The software package in
> Portage Systems is usually just source code. However some compiled
> files exist.

> Portage is made up of two parts emerge and ebuilds. Emerge acts as an
> interface to the Portage System.  Emerge primarily installs packages
> and handles any dependencies that the desired package has. Ebuilds are
> scripts that compile and install the packages. Ebuilds contain
> metadata about the software that is software name, software
> licence,homepage,build time and run time dependencies. Ebuilds also
> contain instructions to configure,build,install,test the software.

Thanks they are correct.  But it is not the point.  I did not mean to
give a quiz on what portage and ebuild are.  I encourage you to try out
gentoo[1, 2] to gain first-hand experience with portage and ebuild, and
show your skills by fixing some easy bugs.

Cheers,
Benda

1. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64
2. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix