On 01/03/2011 09:31 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:40:57 +0200 > Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Quoting PMS, Chapter 8: >> >> "All ebuild-defined variables discussed in this chapter must be >> defined independently of any system, profile or tree dependent data, >> and must not vary depending upon the ebuild phase." >> >> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=blob_plain;f=ebuild-vars.tex;hb=HEAD >> >> >> >> This is very inconvinent rule for example, github tarballs where the >> directory changes with every release. I've used this: > >> src_unpack() { >> unpack ${A} >> cd *-${PN}-* >> S=`pwd` >> } >> Far as I know, S= isn't used to generate metadata cache, so it's PMS >> that need fixing for it's wording: >> >> "All ebuild-defined variables used to generate metadata cache, >> discussed in this chapter..." > > As far as I can tell, the chapter does not mention S, but it could be > more specific. Don't see why it should, though.
It's there. Chapter 8.3.: Optional Ebuild Defined Variables. It's the last one in the list.
