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 1S6sNb-0004Ui-On for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:40:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE6B4E0A5D; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660E2E07D9 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:39:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn6 with SMTP id hn6so2634112wib.10 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:39:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YyxzwWJBoAQWS+rVXZ5tJbREg4IB1q+1sbhKg07PImU=; b=XSDD9kKDN6QsVBk0rbuJlRZ3dmkLSwO7u2FU0UmJRs9sZfdmF39Eb2a4kPSAFSuMmu ZzzNORvV0/uRtiNtPqCUcWcXF9qPpsRMH9KDOtsWjvMAQX8TXT+z7C9d05/FLSSguZ9R lU4RDGzpDaQpWILlGp4ef4UAH2wd1H1k6EbWuxhn23yFWGqng1Id1+kFG/hCeK3X7G28 hYnbLWSZGRT/udSGmBfVLpQKf4QSVvVJcbG5Befchbr3RJ7tf/nEkDeK13HXM2uUD2x1 SJKsUqbVFX4IzFkNAHYdGNO3YRgx5JdivIE0cAIEXlmhNzdo0hcRf9CaTUS0SVxg5UY2 DuiQ== Received: by 10.180.88.199 with SMTP id bi7mr22404299wib.12.1331509168680; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:39:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-69-205.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.69.205]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bg3sm28859893wib.10.2012.03.11.16.39.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:38:45 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 Message-ID: <20120312013845.553d553b@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <299642361.533048.1331507257848.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> References: <20111115062115.GA3262@waltdnes.org> <20111121104724.GC7461@waltdnes.org> <20111201194544.GD4455@waltdnes.org> <20120217234045.GA25390@waltdnes.org> <20120311090912.GA23850@waltdnes.org> <499847436.525568.1331465225324.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <20120311161754.059ce7d8@khamul.example.com> <1018566402.530386.1331494646526.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <20120311222713.2c9db898@khamul.example.com> <299642361.533048.1331507257848.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4ce2715a-5e96-4b36-a712-92bbc9c7a800 X-Archives-Hash: a1a190126fa18fe06d427a4c01838954 On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:07:37 -0400 (EDT) Daddy wrote: > > > On March 11, 2012 at 4:27 PM Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:37:26 -0400 (EDT) > > Daddy wrote: > > > > > We have spare parts so tomorrow I'll build a test machine. My > > > Gentoo knowledge is quite limited, seeing as how we moved back > > > after 9 years and had to start life over. But I can start by > > > following this guide, and probably reading and learning about > > > ebuilds. They're quite different from Slackware's build scripts, > > > primarily due to dependency checking, etc. > > > > Once you've got the hang of building a Gentoo system from scratch, > > the best thing you can do is read all the man pages from portage > > and seeing how that compares to what's in simple ebuilds. > > > > ebuilds are quite straightforward, they all have a "global" section > > (my phrase) defining various constants, and code sections for > > fetching, unpacking, compiling, installing sources and the files to > > the live system. Quite simple in concept. > > > > The fun starts when ebuilds work fine and the dev's machine and get > > published, but don;t do quite the same thing on your machine :-) > > > > > > > > -- > > Alan McKinnnon > > alan.mckinnon@gmail.com > > > > The ebuild in my local overlay that evolved from an official one has > EAPI=2 > > But when I issue "some.ebuild" it has EAPI=3 on this box. And iirc > another of my boxen has EAPI=4. > > Yes, much studying yet to be done. Possibly you forked package-1.0 and your ebuild is still at that version. The official meanwhile has moved on to versions package-1.1 and package-1.2; those will take preference over your local ebuild regardless of precedence order of overlays (i.e. version number always wins, repo is secondary) -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com