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On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 23:39 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> All, |
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> I currently have two copies of the portage tree on my system. |
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> The one that portage itself uses is at /usr/portage, but I have a second copy at /usr/gentoo-x86 which is the one that is checked out of cvs. |
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> Is this the way I should be working, or is there a way to use one copy of the portage tree for both development and portage itself? |
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Actually, you "should" have 3 trees (kinda). |
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You should have /usr/portage, which is what you get from rsync. |
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You should have $CVSROOT/gentoo-x86 (wherever you want it) for commits. |
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You should have $PORTDIR_OVERLAY for making your actual changes. |
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Don't actually edit files in your CVS tree. Edit them in your overlay |
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then move them over. While this does create extra steps, it ensures you |
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are accidentally commiting something you might be in-development on that |
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could potentially break systems. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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