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An ebuild is a specialized bash script format created by the Gentoo Linux project for use in its Portage software management system, which automates compilation and installation procedures for software packages. Bash is a Free software Unix shell written for the GNU Project. The Gentoo Linux Operating system (ˈdʒɛntuː is a Linux distribution based on the Portage Package management system. Portage is a Package management system used by Gentoo Linux. Gentoo is sometimes referred to as a " Meta-distribution " due to the flexibility A compiler is a Computer program (or set of programs that translates text written in a computer language (the source language) into another Installation (or setup) of a program (including drivers is the act and the effect of putting the program in a computer system so that it can be

Each version of an application or package in the Portage repository has a specific ebuild script written for it. The script is used by the emerge tool, also created by the Gentoo Linux project, to calculate any dependencies of the desired software installation, download the required files (and patch them, if necessary), configure the package (based on "USE flag" settings), compile, and perform a sandboxed installation (in /var/tmp/portage/[ebuild name]/image/ by default). Portage is a Package management system used by Gentoo Linux. Gentoo is sometimes referred to as a " Meta-distribution " due to the flexibility A sandbox is a testing (or virtual) environment that isolates untested code changes and outright experimentation from the production environment or Upon successful completion of these steps, the installed files are merged into the live system, outside the sandbox.

Although most ebuilds found in the Gentoo Portage repository are used to compile programs from source code, there are also ebuilds to install binary packages, ebuilds that install only documentation or data such as fonts, and basic ebuilds called "metabuilds" which solely trigger the installation of other ebuilds (such as the GNOME or KDE metabuilds). In Computer science, source code (commonly just source or code) is any sequence of statements or declarations written in some Human-readable In Computing, an executable (file causes a computer "to perform indicated tasks according to encoded instructions," as opposed to a file that only contains This article is about font technology For information about the typographic appearance of individual font sets see Typefaces A computer font (or A gnome is a Mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and subterranean lifestyle KDE ( K Desktop Environment) (ˌkeɪdiːˈiː is a Free software project which aims to be a powerful system for an easy-to-use Desktop environment.

Example

Here is an example ebuild for version 1. 2. 2 of the Beep software:

# Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-misc/beep/beep-1. 2. 2-r1. ebuild,v 1. 3 2006/08/19 11:00:37 kloeri Exp $

inherit eutils base

DESCRIPTION="the advanced PC speaker beeper"
HOMEPAGE="http://www. johnath. com/beep/"
SRC_URI="http://www. johnath. com/beep/${P}. tar. gz"

LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
IUSE=""

PATCHES="${FILESDIR}/${P}-nosuid. patch"

src_compile() {
        emake FLAGS="${CFLAGS}" || die "compile problem"
}

src_install() {
        dobin beep
        fperms 0711 /usr/bin/beep
        doman beep. 1. gz
        dodoc CHANGELOG CREDITS README
}

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Portage is a Package management system used by Gentoo Linux. Gentoo is sometimes referred to as a " Meta-distribution " due to the flexibility The Gentoo Linux Operating system (ˈdʒɛntuː is a Linux distribution based on the Portage Package management system.

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