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| author |   Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> | 2021-03-21 04:43:18 +0000 |
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| committer |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2021-04-07 19:28:17 +0200 |
| commit | 00f6bdcb2aed298e3d9c13b925811d1d35e39188 (patch) | |
| tree | e03d5ef1c04359b83a483c2bfb83e6b91ce3a78a /ebuild-maintenance | |
| parent | ebuild-writing/use-conditional-code: use || die in example (diff) | |
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ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild: mention non-developers and large patches
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ebuild-maintenance')
| -rw-r--r-- | ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/text.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/text.xml b/ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/text.xml index d8608be..7ef8254 100644 --- a/ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/text.xml +++ b/ebuild-maintenance/new-ebuild/text.xml @@ -24,9 +24,15 @@ The Gentoo repository should only be used for storing <c>.ebuild</c> files, as well as any small companion files, such as patches or sample configuration files. These files should have a size of at most 20 KiB and must be placed in the <c>mycat/mypkg/files</c> directory, which can be referenced as -<c>${FILESDIR}</c> from within ebuilds. Larger patch files should be placed -in your developer space on <c>dev.gentoo.org</c> instead, in order to minimize -the repository size. +<c>${FILESDIR}</c> from within ebuilds. +</p> + +<p> +Larger patches should be placed in your developer space on <c>dev.gentoo.org</c> +instead of the tree, in order to minimize the repository size. +Non-developers such as proxied maintainers can host patches at some stable +location of their own <d/> there is no security issue here as the Manifest +will record patch checksums at the time of commit. </p> <p> |