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| author |   Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> | 2007-03-24 18:00:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> | 2007-03-24 18:00:02 +0000 |
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Add appendix on things ebuilds can't do
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diff --git a/appendices.tex b/appendices.tex index 5b21a02..188d98f 100644 --- a/appendices.tex +++ b/appendices.tex @@ -7,5 +7,23 @@ The \t{metadata.xml} file is used to contain extra package- or category-level in what is stored in ebuild metadata. Its exact format is strictly beyond the scope of this document, and is described in the DTD file located at \url{http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd}. +\chapter{Unspecified Items} + +The following items are not specified by this document, and may not be relied upon by ebuilds. +This is, of course, an incomplete list---it covers only the things that the authors know have +been abused in the past. + +\begin{bulletlist} +\item The \t{FEATURES} variable. This is Portage specific. +\item Similarly, any \t{PORTAGE\_} variable not explicitly listed. +\item Any Portage configuration file. +\item The VDB (\t{/var/db/pkg}). Ebuilds may not access this or rely upon it existing or being + in any particular format. +\item The \t{portageq} command. The \t{has\_version} and \t{best\_version} commands are + available as functions. +\item The \t{emerge} command. +\item Binary packages. +\item The \t{PORTDIR\_OVERLAY} variable, and overlay behaviour in general. +\end{bulletlist} % vim: set filetype=tex fileencoding=utf8 et tw=100 spell spelllang=en : |