From 8760b62d1be5820eda00e22fa00f719ade780aa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diego Elio Pettenò Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:10:44 +0000 Subject: Add a paragaph about Gentoo specific software. svn path=/trunk/; revision=27 --- doc/howitworks.docbook | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/howitworks.docbook b/doc/howitworks.docbook index c4f3123..abb25fb 100644 --- a/doc/howitworks.docbook +++ b/doc/howitworks.docbook @@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ it can depend on a few GNU tools, or at least tools that can support an acceptable subset of GNU parameters. + +There are basically two Gentoo specific softwares that are needed for +autoepatch: the first is baselayout, as autoepatch loads +/sbin/functions.sh to get functions like ebegin and eend, and +similar; the other is Portage, as autoepatch uses the portageq +command, and allows to the patchsets to use it. + + First of all, as most of the patchsets are expected to be actual patch files, the patch(1) command is supposed to be coming from GNU -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad