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| author |   Alexander Berntsen <alexander@plaimi.net> | 2013-08-11 23:32:42 +0200 |
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| committer |   Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2013-08-11 15:27:33 -0700 |
| commit | ff54f5db6658c0bfecc7fe365d383c5879f20221 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a51645b565e4e7bd656a1d08cd56062c8118571 | |
| parent | Cast uid/gid proxies to int for Python 3.4. (diff) | |
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man/make.conf.5: Document shlex a bit, bug 309941
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diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index 236fdf0c4..f83dd0392 100644 --- a/man/make.conf.5 +++ b/man/make.conf.5 @@ -4,7 +4,16 @@ make.conf \- custom settings for Portage .SH "SYNOPSIS" \fB/etc/make.conf\fR and \fB/etc/portage/make.conf\fR .SH "DESCRIPTION" -This file contains various variables that are used by Portage. + +This file contains various variables that are used by Portage. The file has a +newline-delimited list of \fI<key>=<value>\fR pairs (see the default file for +examples) which are accessible from the environment of ebuilds. It supports +simple shell\-like expansion of the form \fIvar="${var}"\fR, the source +keyword and variable substituton, but not some of the more advanced BASH +features like arrays and special parameter expansions. For more details, see +the Simple lexical analysis documentanion: +\fLhttp://docs.python.org/3/library/shlex.html\fR. +.br Portage will check the currently\-defined environment variables first for any settings. If no environment settings are found, Portage then checks the make.conf files. Both /etc/make.conf and |