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| author |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2022-05-11 23:55:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2022-05-14 09:29:57 +0200 |
| commit | 260e21bf65f67ad424e990306a7a4789b6b2f1de (patch) | |
| tree | a3860037e248a964f31d36499f4cf939cd3d974d | |
| parent | pkg-mgr-commands.tex: Whitespace (diff) | |
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pkg-mgr-commands.tex: Tighten the spec for reserved names
"abort", "dyn" and "prep" are only reserved at the beginning of a name.
This appears to be their only (historical and recent) usage in Portage.
"ebuild" is allowed as substring of words like "rebuild", which is
somewhat common in names.
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/843779
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | pkg-mgr-commands.tex | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pkg-mgr-commands.tex b/pkg-mgr-commands.tex index 6df5f32..d4dcffe 100644 --- a/pkg-mgr-commands.tex +++ b/pkg-mgr-commands.tex @@ -1316,19 +1316,25 @@ Ebuilds must not run any of these commands once the current phase function has r \subsection{Reserved commands and variables} -Except where documented otherwise, all functions and variables that contain any of the following +Except where documented otherwise, all functions and variables that begin with any of the following strings (ignoring case) are reserved for package manager use and may not be used or relied upon by ebuilds: \begin{compactitem} -\item \t{__} (two underscores) at beginning of string +\item \t{__} (two underscores) \item \t{abort} \item \t{dyn} -\item \t{ebuild} +\item \t{prep} +\end{compactitem} + +The same applies to functions and variables that contain any of the following strings (ignoring +case): +\nobreakpar +\begin{compactitem} +\item \t{ebuild} (unless immediately preceded by another letter) \item \t{hook} \item \t{paludis} \item \t{portage} -\item \t{prep} \end{compactitem} % vim: set filetype=tex fileencoding=utf8 et tw=100 spell spelllang=en : |