some INSTALL_MASK docs by compnerd

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=4308

diff --git a/cnf/make.conf b/cnf/make.conf
index 8b79e213ad947485e0617b31c0c1f8d4edcfc560..23a0d935819955046ca61165e7932d1dfc5a1401 100644 (file)
--- a/cnf/make.conf
+++ b/cnf/make.conf
@@ -200,6 +200,11 @@
 #     are not filtered.
 #EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=""
 #
+# INSTALL_MASK allows certain files to not be installed into your file system.
+#     This is useful when you wish to filter out a certain set of files from
+#     ever being installed, such as INSTALL.gz or TODO.gz
+#INSTALL_MASK=""
+#
 # MAKEOPTS provides extra options that may be passed to 'make' when a
 #     program is compiled. Presently the only use is for specifying
 #     the number of parallel makes (-j) to perform. The suggested number

diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5
index 87aa510fd57b5f9fc02999b32bf4222ea46f4664..2a509013dbca2e75dac50a17f44b363eb56b9790 100644 (file)
--- a/man/make.conf.5
+++ b/man/make.conf.5
@@ -281,6 +281,12 @@ These vars are used if the sources must be downloaded from the
 internet by \fBwget\fR(1).  They are only required if you use a
 proxy server for internet access.
 .TP
+\fBINSTALL_MASK\fR = \fI[space delimited list of file names]\fR
+Use this variable if you want to selectively prevent certain files from being
+copied into your file system tree.  This does not work on symlinks, but only on
+actual files.  Useful if you wish to filter out files like HACKING.gz and
+TODO.gz.
+.TP
 .B MAKEOPTS
 Use this variable if you want to use parallel make.  For example, if you
 have a dual\-processor system, set this variable to "\-j2" or "\-j3" for 
@@ -419,6 +425,7 @@ Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/
 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
 Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org>
 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@gentoo.org>
 .fi
 .SH "FILES"
 .TP