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# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
# This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
# https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Ebuild development quiz
Revision 1.16 - 01 December 2016
Answer in whatever length necessary for completeness. Support your answers
with documentation links. Consult your mentor if you're unable to locate
answers.
*** Organizational structure questions
1. When is it appropriate to post to the following mailing lists: gentoo-core,
gentoo-dev, gentoo-dev-announce, gentoo-project? Provide examples of topics
that are appropriate for each one of them.
docs: gentoo.org
2. Who should be contacted with complaints about specific developers or
projects? Shortly explain the procedure including all levels of appeal.
docs: comrel policy
3. What is the proper method for suggesting a wide-ranging feature or
enhancement to Gentoo? Describe the process for getting this feature
approved and implemented.
docs: GLEPs
4. What is the purpose of the Gentoo Council?
docs: GLEPs
5. What is the Gentoo Foundation? How does one apply for membership and
who are eligible?
docs: gentoo.org
6. What are projects? Who can start a new Gentoo project and how is it done?
What is the rationale behind this structure?
docs: devmanual, GLEPs
7. What is the devaway system? When should it be used and how to use it?
docs: wiki
*** Ebuild technical/policy questions
1. You change a package's ebuild to install an init script. Previously,
the package had no init script at all.
Is a revision bump necessary? Why? What about when adding a patch?
What about when adding a dependency?
docs: devmanual
2. A user submits a "live" VCS (git, svn ...) ebuild in order to obtain
a bugfix that has not been released yet. What would be a preferable
alternative to such an ebuild? What if there are numerous changes
involved?
docs: devmanual
3. (a) What is repoman? When should it be used? How would you check for QA
problems with repoman?
docs: devmanual, wiki
(b) A user submits a brand-new ebuild for a new package. What are
the proper steps (including repoman commands) to take to add
this ebuild to ::gentoo? What should be in the commit message?
docs: devmanual, wiki
4. A user submits an ebuild that has numerous technical problems and
violates policy. How would you handle that situation?
docs: devmanual
5. You have a set of new ebuilds that could potentially benefit
from a global USE flag. What steps should be taken before
a new USE flag is implemented? What should be done if the
USE flag only applies to a single package?
docs: devmanual
6. What steps are needed to remove a use flag from IUSE in an ebuild?
docs:
7. You're creating an ebuild. Unfortunately, the default 'emake
DESTDIR="${D}" install' call causes numerous access violations.
What are the best long-term and short-term solutions?
docs: devmanual
8. You're creating an ebuild that needs a patch. The patch is
nontrivially large - bigger than 20 KiB. Where should
the patch be kept?
docs: devmanual
9. You're creating an ebuild for a package whose license does not match
any of the licenses in the 'licenses' directory. What is the proper
course of action?
docs: GLEPs, devmanual
10. (a) You wish to have an ebuild marked "stable," taking it out of
~ARCH KEYWORDS. It's a library. What steps should be taken to do so?
docs: devmanual
(b) You wish to mark an ebuild "testing," putting it into ~ARCH
KEYWORDS. It was previously hard-masked in package.mask.
What should be done prior to doing so?
docs: devmanual
(c) You wish to have an ebuild marked "stable." It is a popular
application, but no other ebuilds depend on it.
How would you handle it?
docs: devmanual
11. What is the difference between different dependency classes (DEPEND and
RDEPEND)? When should each of them be used? Provide examples.
docs: devmanual
12. You wish to make a change to an ebuild, but you checked the commit
messages and metadata.xml and it appears to be maintained by someone
else. How should you proceed?
docs: devmanual
14. You find a situation in which an eclass may be useful. What should
you do before implementing such an eclass?
docs: devmanual
15. How can you verify an ebuild has correct run time dependencies
(RDEPEND) for all installed binaries? Provide an example tool calls.
docs:
16. How do you deal with a situation in which an ebuild tries to
install a file that is already installed by another package?
docs: devmanual
17. Most configure scripts attempt to automatically determine
settings based on the host system. When should the ebuild
specifically override settings?
docs: devmanual
18. What is the EAPI version? How does it affect ebuilds and eclasses?
docs: devmanual, PMS
19. What is the procedure for removing packages from the tree?
docs: devmanual
20. How do keywording policies for less often used arches like ia64 or
mips differ from the more common ones like amd64?
docs: devmanual
21. You are adding a new major version to the tree that requires users to
follow an upgrade guide. How will you communicate this to the users?
docs: GLEPs
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hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net and provide the fingerprint of it below
You should sign your quizzes with your key
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo-keys/Generating_GLEP_63_based_OpenPGP_keys
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GnuPG
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/SSH_Key_Guide
If you don't paste your key inline, make sure it's signed by your
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* Date of birth
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* What are your programming/scripting skills, if applicable?
* What other areas are you experienced in?
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