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| author |   Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> | 2009-01-14 15:39:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> | 2009-01-14 15:37:03 +0000 |
| commit | 01c5cc7cb2a6e797687844b854ec3c83818e73e6 (patch) | |
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| parent | Ebuilds may trust the initial working directory. (diff) | |
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Add DEFINED_PHASES.
See Council meeting on 20081211.
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diff --git a/ebuild-vars.tex b/ebuild-vars.tex index e4fd6d1..a79217e 100644 --- a/ebuild-vars.tex +++ b/ebuild-vars.tex @@ -209,6 +209,20 @@ of the ebuild's metadata: \note Thus, by extension of section~\ref{metadata-invariance}, \t{inherit} may not be used conditionally, except upon constant conditions. +The following are special variables defined by the package manager for internal use and may or may +not be exported to the ebuild environment: + +\begin{description} +\item[DEFINED\_PHASES] A space separated arbitrarily ordered list of phase names (e.g. \t{configure +setup unpack}) whose phase functions are defined by the ebuild or an eclass inherited by the ebuild. +If no phase functions are defined, a single hyphen is used instead of an empty string. Package +managers may not rely upon the metadata cache having this variable defined, and must treat an empty +string as ``this information is not available''. +\end{description} + +\note Thus, by extension of section~\ref{metadata-invariance}, phase functions must not be defined +based upon any variant condition. + % vim: set filetype=tex fileencoding=utf8 et tw=100 spell spelllang=en : %%% Local Variables: |