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Hi, |
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Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing |
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or testing software packages. |
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Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not |
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brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the latest version) is installed on my |
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system, but more recently, they fixed a critical bug in the upstream CVS tree |
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which I'd like to test the fix for. It's not dead simple for me to do this - I |
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want to use the CVS sources with the ebuild already in portage. I have to use |
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"ebuild foo-3.2.1.ebuild unpack" to extract the sources, then manually replace |
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them with my CVS checkout. Or checkout CVS, make a new tarball, call it |
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foo-3.2.1.tar.bz2, redigest and remerge the ebuild. Or I could create a |
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foo-cvs ebuild and go to the trouble of making it mirror the contents of |
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foo-3.2.1.ebuild exactly. |
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It's great that its *possible* right now thanks to portage and co, but I'm |
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interested in ways of making this easier. Before I give this more thought, I'd |
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be interested to know if anyone has already got any scripts or tips :) |
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Thanks, |
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Daniel |
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