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| author |   Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org> | 2006-10-21 19:57:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org> | 2006-10-21 19:57:56 +0000 |
| commit | 300a506bacaf9d5543f11db37ce49c9f299a5918 (patch) | |
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| parent | 2006-10-21 Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org> (diff) | |
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2006-10-21 Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>
* libs/paludis.bash.in, libs/package-manager.bash.in: Fix some bugs
and general cleanup. Complete package manager abstraction.
* doc/developer-guide.txt: Update developer documentation to reflect
API changes.
diffstat:
doc/developer-guide.txt | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
libs/package-manager.bash.in | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
libs/paludis.bash.in | 12 ++++++++++++
3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
svn path=/trunk/; revision=325
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/developer-guide.txt | 34 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/developer-guide.txt b/doc/developer-guide.txt index ebb9349..a37ec21 100644 --- a/doc/developer-guide.txt +++ b/doc/developer-guide.txt @@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ The following categories of function are available by default: * Output Utility Functions * Manipulation Functions * Path-Manipulation Functions +* Configuration Functions +* Multilib Functions +* Package-Manager Functions * Test Functions To use any of the other functions, you have first to ``inherit`` the corresponding @@ -326,7 +329,7 @@ The ``dirname`` function is a transparent bash-only replacement for the external ``dirname`` application. The ``canonicalise`` Function -,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, +,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, The ``canonicalise`` function is a wrapper to either GNU readlink or realpath. @@ -391,23 +394,36 @@ architecture. By default it uses /etc/ld.so.conf to obtain all valid libdirs. If this fails due to a missing or broken file, this function uses ``uname`` to determine the architecture. -Portage Functions ------------------ +Package-Manager Functions +------------------------- -These are implemented in ``libs/portage.bash``. +These are implemented in ``libs/package-manager.bash``. The ``arch`` Function ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, The ``arch`` function returns the correct value of ${ARCH} for the current -system. If Portage cannot provide this information, ``arch`` falls back to a -``uname -m`` and ``uname -s`` based lookup-table. +system. If the package manager cannot provide this information, ``arch`` falls +back to a ``uname -m`` and ``uname -s`` based lookup-table. + +The ``best-version`` Function +,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, -The ``portageq`` Function +The ``best-version`` Function returns the highest available version for a +given package dep atom. + +The ``envvar`` Function ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, -The ``portageq`` function transparently wraps the corresponding Portage script -whilst redirecting stderr to ``/dev/null``. +The ``envvar`` function retrieves the contents of a configuration-environemnt +variable for a given package. The syntax is ``envvar ${package-name} +${var-name}``. + +The ``has-version`` Function +,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, + +The ``has-version`` function checks whether a given versioned package dep atom +is installed. A Basic Skeleton Library ======================== |