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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-10-05 21:32:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-10-05 21:32:00 +0000 |
| commit | 7e0efdb2d31b50e267682879e59673050f57a732 (patch) | |
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| parent | 4c2b32da48ddab172db68f90e1408f23026cd345 (diff) | |
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Document the EAPI variable. (trunk r7948:7950)
svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=7968
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diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index 68b4f053a..7297ff52a 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -126,6 +126,17 @@ the tree prefixed by ${ROOT}. Do not modify this variable. \fBDESCRIPTION\fR = \fI"A happy little package"\fR Should contain a short description of the package. .TP +\fBEAPI\fR = \fI"0"\fR +Defines the ebuild API version to which this package conforms. If not +defined then it defaults to "0". If portage does not recognize the +EAPI value then it will mask the package and refuse to perform any +operations with it since this means that a newer version of portage +needs to be installed first. For maximum backward compatiblity, a +package should conform to the lowest possible EAPI. Note that anyone +who uses the \fBebuild\fR(1) and \fBrepoman\fR(1) commands with this +package will be required to have a version of portage that recognizes +the EAPI to which this package conforms. +.TP \fBSRC_URI\fR = \fI"http://happy.com/little/${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 |