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 1S6rtF-0007ky-0J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:09:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C64FE0A82; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [74.208.4.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19C2E0A6C for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:07:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oxusltgw10.schlund.de (oxusltgw10.lxa.perfora.net [172.19.206.12]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lij5x-1ScduO3T93-00cZOS; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:07:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:07:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Daddy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <299642361.533048.1331507257848.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> In-Reply-To: <20120311222713.2c9db898@khamul.example.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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_533047_1422516516.1331507257811" X-Priority: 3 Importance: Medium X-Mailer: Open-Xchange Mailer v6.20.0-Rev36 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:aiL9SvOTR/CzniWqbtUn7M+RQWE+Tn2VcElaFBexOtH +Ix+DiP4NSClItw/V/BBCe+5ICl0t4c4NjL2IxC+NDfuewyvsU 5BzBPrHYpcXYlqeFHBfdR88jChEBUxqx3c1zmGwLQ3u9lUugWS wejgpj/fYqOgFHxJyibcCxt4T0b5wiEELPuyg/EC8ybmHz0RH6 ouUJfioIVGBaWSGA0+6gJtntqxEkYNiR6yXYfLZJ9r653hIAPf tFnIHvL2T7qbbNhYRSoQjuQmTcYlTzyKtzPU4qphtZoVyG2BNH f7CKrgFfAxiHMxnccsKT8GTXoFz1H73hcfi5wybrSM/41J9Zd1 jhkn05MghhHaF19XkHXhOBeHe/ysUXl15gbf8aoZI/BGAvRRH+ fm8AwvFTOh+z5BTZi2C9IXe3kvdNZffgmmJWNV4gj/pqXAwLUt wyAkR X-Archives-Salt: ad9edf22-1c0c-4eb1-a625-52d38342df22 X-Archives-Hash: d7cd8186ded7f4d8f4d6a5e1defab235 ------=_Part_533047_1422516516.1331507257811 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. ------=_Part_533047_1422516516.1331507257811 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

 

On March 11, 2012 at 4:27 PM Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:37:26 -0400 (EDT)
> Daddy <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> 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. 

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