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| author |   Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2009-01-12 08:09:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2009-01-12 08:09:01 +0000 |
| commit | a3ea21a10c1580980edcc4417bf5b12e6b9162fe (patch) | |
| tree | 8f85f9fd25702d751f67127aeb17366e01b17f99 /man | |
| parent | Fix 'TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting' (diff) | |
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Specify that metadata variable values should only contain ASCII as per GLEP 31.
(trunk r12367)
svn path=/main/branches/2.1.6/; revision=12438
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/ebuild.5 | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index 7a5ec2ca..bf44de70 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ ebuilds (such as the PORTAGE* and PORTDIR* variables) .br \- When assigning values to variables in ebuilds, you \fBcannot have a space\fR between the variable name and the equal sign. +.br +\- Variable values should only contain characters that are members of the +\fBascii\fR(7) character set. This requirement is mandated by \fBGLEP 31\fR. .TP .B P This variable contains the package name without the ebuild revision. |