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The Gentoo Development Guide
For anybody who has ever wondered what goes into the creation of a Gentoo
package: the first version of the Gentoo Development Guide is now
online. It contains a great deal of information on how to create ebuilds
and the relevant policies.
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The Gentoo Development Guide Posted May 25, 2006 19:04 UTC (Thu) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846) [Link] Heh, I find this part amusing:
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If a package is only supplied in autopackage format, you must not add it to the tree. If a package is supplied in autopackage format and some other sane standard format (for example a source tarball), use the other format only.
Autopackage packages are totally unsuitable for Gentoo systems for a large number of reasons:
* To even unpack the package, you must run arbitrary code supplied by an untrusted source.
Upstream are aware of these issues and have no desire to fix them — indeed, they pass off some of their most broken behaviour as 'features'.
The Gentoo Development Guide Posted May 25, 2006 20:24 UTC (Thu) by minmax (guest, #37985) [Link] Not really surprising when you look at the main author's name.The guy got kicked from Gentoo for his behavior. "They do not support the filesystem layout used by Gentoo." is quite funny considering that manual does not look like any other Gentoo documentation. Gentoo documentation is rather good. I wonder why this one looks so different.
The Gentoo Development Guide Posted May 25, 2006 22:39 UTC (Thu) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link] It's hosted on gentoo.org. How is the visual layout relevant to the validity of the text?
The Gentoo Development Guide Posted May 28, 2006 2:17 UTC (Sun) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178) [Link] The guide was developed largely outside of Gentoo by a group of developers unhappy with the current state (lack?) of policy and procedure documentation. Many parts of Gentoo are held together by unspoken rules and understandings and it can be hard for newcomers to learn the ropes. This doc is a step towards making it a bit easier and setting some of the more obvious things in writing.The formatting and layout are due to the original author's, um..., strong dislike for the GuideXML format that Gentoo docs are done in. He has since "left" the project, so it's possible it'll be migrated over to GuideXML over time. And yeah, ciaran's flamefests with the autopackage author on the gentoo-dev ml and forums are the stuff of legends.
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