commit: fe224c4eab5ab7ccfa637903bc2ee7c2be339d6d
Author: Wim Muskee <wimmuskee <AT> gmail <DOT> com>
AuthorDate: Sun Nov 13 15:44:51 2016 +0000
Commit: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Wed Nov 30 06:34:07 2016 +0000
URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=fe224c4e
general-concepts/tree: Add mention for metadata directory in gentoo tree
Gentoo-Bug: 572150
general-concepts/tree/text.xml | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/general-concepts/tree/text.xml b/general-concepts/tree/text.xml
index 4d8bf0e..de452e3 100644
--- a/general-concepts/tree/text.xml
+++ b/general-concepts/tree/text.xml
@@ -38,6 +38,26 @@ The basic layout of the Gentoo repository is as follows:
<li>Eclasses directory, <c>eclass/</c></li>
<li>Licenses directory, <c>licenses/</c></li>
<li>
+ Metadata directory, <c>metadata/</c>. Most of the listed contents
+ are not kept directly in the main git tree but instead
+ auto-generated or included from other repositories as part of the
+ <uri link="::general-concepts/git-to-rsync">Git to Rsync</uri>
+ process.
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ Various control files, for example <c>layout.conf</c>, <c>timestamp</c>
+ and <c>projects.xml</c>. Only <c>layout.conf</c> exists in the main git
tree.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ XML validation files in <c>metadata/dtd/</c> and
<c>metadata/xml-schema/</c>.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Security advisories in <c>metadata/glsa/</c> and news items in
+ <c>metadata/news/</c>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
Profiles directory, <c>profiles/</c>
<ul>
<li>
