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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-12-29 22:51:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-12-29 22:51:42 +0000 |
| commit | cce5f1bc07f75e1582f98d1de3958c6d7fd142c0 (patch) | |
| tree | c9955555e67bda990947c75f920bcb8ab892cb16 | |
| parent | dc77088d2df107e4c3e23e38f25fe5a1da12b521 (diff) | |
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Specify that metadata variable values should only contain ASCII as per GLEP 31.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=12367
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diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index 7e9a477fc..0c5a07e28 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ ebuilds (such as the PORTAGE* and PORTDIR* variables) .br \- When assigning values to variables in ebuilds, you \fBcannot have a space\fR between the variable name and the equal sign. +.br +\- Variable values should only contain characters that are members of the +\fBascii\fR(7) character set. This requirement is mandated by \fBGLEP 31\fR. .TP .B P This variable contains the package name without the ebuild revision. |