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From: James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
Cc: gentoo-devhelp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-devhelp] How do I select a specific Git "head" in live ebuilds?
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:17:11
Message-Id: m3hbie1rsb.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-devhelp] How do I select a specific Git "head" in live ebuilds? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 >>>>> "NC" == Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> writes:
2
3 NC> I tried putting:
4
5 NC> EGIT_BRANCH="stable-0.4"
6
7 NC> in the ebuild. But this doesn't seem to help; "master" is emerged
8 NC> instead of "stable-0.4".
9
10 NC> What am I doing wrong?
11
12 Move the EGIT_ declarations earlier in the file. IIRC, EGIT_BRANCH will
13 only work if it is before the inheirit.
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15 (It took me *quite* a bit of trial-and-error to get it to work the first
16 time I wanted to use a non-master HEAD.)
17
18 -JimC
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20 James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

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