ebuild scripts

mihochan · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 6:11 am Post subject: ebuild scripts

Hi,

I'm trying to knock up a couple of ebuild scripts.
I have many

questions but for the moment the most crucial is,
How do I access the little add-ons I've put into the files directory? I'm supposing that there is a BASH variable which will take me there but what is it called?

Thanks

Tom

Nitro · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 2:22 pm Post subject:

Check out the man pages:

mihochan · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 1:20 am Post subject:

Kyle,

I've had a look at both these man pages and been through the relevant pages on the Gentoo site but I'm still not much clearer on how to proceed.
If I place a file in /usr/portage/<section>/<app>/files
how should I access it in the ebuild script?

Tom

tod · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 4:00 pm Post subject:

Hi!

You can access the /usr/portage/<categaroy>/<foo>/files directory in the foo.ebuild by using the variable ${FILESDIR}. Note this is usually invoked in the src_unpack function of the ebuild most notably for applying small gentoo specific patches to get the package to build.

Please see the net-mail/evolution ebuild for a good example, also at

http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-mail/evolution/evolution-1.0.3-r4.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

You can also 'grep -Hr FILESDIR /usr/portage/*' to get a list of many more ebuild examples.

hth

tod