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diff --git a/repoman/README b/repoman/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5e78842c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/repoman/README @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +About Portage +============= + +Portage is a package management system based on ports collections. The +Package Manager Specification Project (PMS) standardises and documents +the behaviour of Portage so that the Portage tree can be used by other +package managers. + + +Dependencies +============ + +Python and Bash should be the only hard dependencies. Python 2.7 is the +minimum supported version. + + +Licensing and Legalese +======================= + +Portage is free software; you can redistribute it and/or +modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License +version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. + +Portage is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with Portage; if not, write to the Free Software +Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA +02110-1301, USA. + + +More information +================ + +-DEVELOPING contains some code guidelines. +-LICENSE contains the GNU General Public License version 2. +-NEWS contains new features/major bug fixes for each version. +-RELEASE NOTES contains mainly upgrade information for each version. +-TEST-NOTES contains Portage unit test information. + + +Links +===== +Gentoo project page: <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage> +PMS: <https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html> +PMS git repo: <https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pms.git/> |