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| author |   Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> | 2004-12-26 06:39:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> | 2004-12-26 06:39:41 +0000 |
| commit | 46f2bd6c2e4178d21cf26234d058264821ba7fa1 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c526f036b52ce04b9cd69e42033048b0a7a5123 | |
| parent | Removed assumption that /etc/make.profile/make.defaults must exist for (diff) | |
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add info about parent and cascading profiles
| -rw-r--r-- | man/portage.5 | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5 index 4dbaac7..b51efd2 100644 --- a/man/portage.5 +++ b/man/portage.5 @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ The current portage code uses many different configuration files, most of which are unknown to users and normal developers. Here we will try to collect all the odds and ends so as to help users more effectively utilize portage. This is a reference only for files which do not already have a man page. + +All files in the make.profile directory may be tweaked via parent profiles +when using cascading profiles. For more info, please see +http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/docs/cascading-profiles.xml .IP Note: If you are looking for information on how to emerge something, please see .BR emerge (1). @@ -24,6 +28,7 @@ make.defaults packages packages.build package.provided +parent use.defaults use.mask virtuals @@ -203,6 +208,12 @@ sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.7 x11-libs/qt-3.3.0 .fi .TP +.BR parent +This contains a path to the parent profile. It may be either relative or +absolute. The paths will be relative to the location of the profile. Most +commonly this file contains '..' to indicate the directory above. Utilized +only in cascading profiles. +.TP .BR use.defaults Here we DO NOT define the default USE flags, but the so\-called auto\-USE flags. This rather unknown portage feature activates a USE flag if a @@ -559,4 +570,4 @@ Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/ .BR ebuild (5), .BR make.conf (5) .SH "CVS HEADER" -$Header: /local/data/ulm/cvs/history/var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/portage/man/portage.5,v 1.17.2.1 2004/10/27 14:39:30 jstubbs Exp $ +$Header: /local/data/ulm/cvs/history/var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/portage/man/portage.5,v 1.17.2.2 2004/12/26 06:39:41 vapier Exp $ |