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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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   On March 11, 2012 at 4:27 PM Alan McKinnon &#60;alan.mckinnon@gmail.com&#62; wrote:
   <br/>
   <br/>
   &#62; On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:37:26 -0400 (EDT)
   <br/>
   &#62; Daddy &#60;daddy@happypenguincomputers.com&#62; wrote:
   <br/>
   &#62;
   <br/>
   &#62; &#62; We have spare parts so tomorrow I&#39;ll build a test machine. My Gentoo
   <br/>
   &#62; &#62; knowledge is quite limited, seeing as how we moved back after 9 years
   <br/>
   &#62; &#62; and had to start life over. But I can start by following this guide,
   <br/>
   &#62; &#62; and probably reading and learning about ebuilds. They&#39;re quite
   <br/>
   &#62; &#62; different from Slackware&#39;s build scripts, primarily due to dependency
   <br/>
   &#62; &#62; checking, etc.
   <br/>
   &#62;
   <br/>
   &#62; Once you&#39;ve got the hang of building a Gentoo system from scratch, the
   <br/>
   &#62; best thing you can do is read all the man pages from portage and seeing
   <br/>
   &#62; how that compares to what&#39;s in simple ebuilds.
   <br/>
   &#62;
   <br/>
   &#62; ebuilds are quite straightforward, they all have a &#34;global&#34; section (my
   <br/>
   &#62; phrase) defining various constants, and code sections for fetching,
   <br/>
   &#62; unpacking, compiling, installing sources and the files to the live
   <br/>
   &#62; system. Quite simple in concept.
   <br/>
   &#62;
   <br/>
   &#62; The fun starts when ebuilds work fine and the dev&#39;s machine and get
   <br/>
   &#62; published, but don;t do quite the same thing on your machine :-)
   <br/>
   &#62;
   <br/>
   &#62;
   <br/>
   &#62;
   <br/>
   &#62; --
   <br/>
   &#62; Alan McKinnnon
   <br/>
   &#62; alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
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  <p>The ebuild in my local overlay that evolved from an official one has EAPI=2</p>
  <p>But when I issue &#34;some.ebuild&#34; it has EAPI=3 on this box. And iirc another of my boxen has EAPI=4.</p>
  <p>Yes, much studying yet to be done.&#160;</p>
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