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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2007-10-05 16:53:40 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2007-10-05 16:53:40 +0000
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Document the EAPI variable.
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\fBDESCRIPTION\fR = \fI"A happy little package"\fR
Should contain a short description of the package.
.TP
+\fBEAPI\fR = \fI"0"\fR
+Defines the ebuild API version to which this package conforms. If not
+defined then it defaults to "0". If portage does not recognize the
+EAPI value then it will mask the package and refuse to perform any
+operations with it since this means that a newer version of portage
+needs to be installed first. For maximum backard compatiblity, a
+package should conform to the lowest possible EAPI. Note that anyone
+who uses the \fBebuild\fR(1) and \fBrepoman\fR(1) commands with this
+package will be required to have a version of portage that recognizes
+the EAPI to which this package conforms.
+.TP
\fBSRC_URI\fR = \fI"http://happy.com/little/${P}.tar.gz"\fR
Contains a list of URI's for the required source files. It can contain
multiple URI's for a single source file. The list is processed in order