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| author |   Johann Schmitz <ercpe@gentoo.org> | 2013-08-23 15:49:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Johann Schmitz <ercpe@gentoo.org> | 2013-08-23 15:49:53 +0200 |
| commit | 8d717dda93e8a9a5425ff9e4fe194f1df946d15f (patch) | |
| tree | 40f147fd4da42050a1fc09b6808af6ba28303874 /ebuild-writing | |
| parent | Add reference to the mirror page from the patch page (diff) | |
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Linked the mirror page from the ebuild maintenance page.
Reworded the surrounding sentence to remove the ambiguity regarding the place of the patch tarballs.
Diffstat (limited to 'ebuild-writing')
| -rw-r--r-- | ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml b/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml index c228074..4b57815 100644 --- a/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml +++ b/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml @@ -38,8 +38,9 @@ files, such as patches or sample configuration files. These types of files should be placed in the <path>/usr/portage/mycat/mypkg/files</path> directory to keep the main <path>mycat/mypkg</path> directory uncluttered. Exceptions to this rule are for larger patch files (we recommend this for patches -above 20KB) which should be put onto the Gentoo mirrors so that people -do not waste excessive amounts of bandwidth and hard drive +above 20KB) which should be distributed as tarballs via the +<uri link="::general-concepts/mirrors/#suitable-download-hosts">Gentoo mirror system</uri> +so that people do not waste excessive amounts of bandwidth and hard drive space. Also, you should not add binary (non-ASCII) files to the Portage CVS tree. If you need to do this in another CVS tree, for example, if you need to add a small PNG graphic for whatever reason, |