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author | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2020-06-25 20:38:51 +0200 |
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committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2020-07-05 21:03:44 +0200 |
commit | e39511f0353770fdc4b7e4ce45b7ff0ed034b6d8 (patch) | |
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parent | Revert "pms.cls: Another workaround for tex4ht." (diff) | |
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ebuild-functions.tex: Phase functions can write to temporary dirs.
All package managers support that functions like pkg_pretend() write
to temporary directories T, TMPDIR and HOME. This is also used in the
tree, see for example bug 469210. Update the spec to match this.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
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diff --git a/ebuild-functions.tex b/ebuild-functions.tex index 4a13db6..3935800 100644 --- a/ebuild-functions.tex +++ b/ebuild-functions.tex @@ -6,11 +6,12 @@ The following is a list of functions that an ebuild, or eclass, may define, and which will be called by the package manager as part of the build and/or install process. In all cases the package manager must provide a default implementation of these functions; unless otherwise stated this must be a -no-op. Most functions must assume only that they have write access to the package's working -directory (the \t{WORKDIR} environment variable; see section~\ref{sec:ebuild-env-vars}), and the -temporary directory \t{T}; exceptions are noted below. All functions may assume that they have read -access to all system libraries, binaries and configuration files that are accessible to normal -users. +no-op. All functions may assume that they have read access to all system libraries, binaries and +configuration files that are accessible to normal users, as well as write access to the temporary +directories specified by the \t{T}, \t{TMPDIR} and \t{HOME} environment variables +(see section~\ref{sec:ebuild-env-vars}). Most functions must assume only that they have additional +write access to the package's working directory (the \t{WORKDIR} environment variable); exceptions +are noted below. The environment for functions run outside of the build sequence (that is, \t{pkg_config}, \t{pkg_info}, \t{pkg_prerm} and \t{pkg_postrm}) must be the environment used for the build of the |