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An Ebuild is a bash script written for the Portage system of Gentoo Linux. Each application in the portage tree has an ebuild written for it, and the ebuild, invoked with " emerge nameofebuild", automatically installs the program and takes care of all dependencies. Ebuild files are usually named as "name-version.ebuild". Usually, the ebuild is designed to install an application from source, although some ebuilds are designed for binaries. Other ebuilds install meta-packages or virtual packages. Here is an example ebuild for the Beep software:
# Copyright 1999-2004 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.ebuild,v 1.16 2004/07/14 01:43:23 mr_bones_ Exp $
DESCRIPTION="the advanced PC speaker beeper"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.johnath.com/beep/"
SRC_URI="http://www.johnath.com/beep/${P}.tar.gz"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="x86 ppc alpha amd64"
IUSE=""
DEPEND="virtual/libc"
src_compile() {
emake FLAGS="${CFLAGS}" || die "compile problem"
}
src_install() {
dobin beep
# do we really have to set this suid by default? -solar
fperms 4711 /usr/bin/beep
doman beep.1.gz
dodoc CHANGELOG CREDITS README
}
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