Markus Döbele schreef: > Okay. Understood! > I would like to have a look in how an ebuild is constructed.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=6 This is the English version; if you would prefer to read it in German: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/de/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=6 Unfortunately, this section of the developers handbook appears to be only available in English: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1 > I figured out how to create an rpm and now want to know how it looks like for > an ebuild. I think you perhaps misunderstand what an ebuild is. It's not an 'application', it's a text file (script, actually) that instructs the system how to compile the application in the most common case of installing from source tarballs. The vast majority of programs on a Gentoo system are compiled from source, such compilation being customized for the individual system via the use of USE flags, which the user specifies at the time of compilation. The USE flags, generally speaking, conform to ./configure options that you might be more familar with, and the ebuild is basically a mediator between the human understanding of USE flags such as +gnome or -kde and the compiler's understanding of --enable-gnome-support and --without-kde. In the case of the relatively few binary applications that can be installed via Portage, the ebuild mostly contains extraction instructions (since a binary isn't going to be compiled, but just copied to the appropriate place in the filetree so that the user knows where it's likely to be), and sometimes whatever 'einfo' messages the user might want to see/know (special notes about configuring or running the installed program. But you've already done all the work needed, insofar as you've got a working binary. So you don't have to 'create' anything else other than a way for Gentoo users to connect to the binary with our automated package manager, Portage-- which is what the whole issue over moving the files to Sourceforge is about. Since we know Nick's ebuild works, from the testers, Nick, why don't you just send him a copy? It is GPL, isn't it ;) ? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
