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On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 18:55, Brandon Hale wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 23:10 +0000, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> This may or may not be of use to any of you, but here is how I do |
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> things.. My main tree (/usr/portage) uses typical rsync, this is what I |
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> sync nightly. Note that a nightly rsync update is less stressful on our |
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> infrastructure as we have numerous mirrors for just this purpose. I have |
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> an overlay in /usr/local/portage for things that I'm playing with but |
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> have no intentions to commit. This is my PORTDIR_OVERLAY in make.conf. |
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> Lastly, I have a cvs checkout of the tree in ~/work/gentoo-x86 to |
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> develop against. If I want to test something in the tree, I can simply |
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> pass PORTDIR_OVERLAY inline and override the variable in the environment |
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> (this might be additive, doesnt matter either way), such as |
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> `PORTDIR_OVERLAY="~/work/gentoo-x86" emerge foo`. With some $1 action, |
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> this lends itself to a simple alias. |
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> What are the pros? I have a complete and up to date tree w/o putting |
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> unneeded stress on our infra. I also have a place for testing ebuilds I |
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> am not ready to commit. And most importantly to me, I can also work on |
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> the tree in CVS w/o any extra hassle. Any questions, or improvements on |
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> the above feel free to drop me a line. |
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This is exactly what I do, minus the updating of my /usr/portage |
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nightly. I probably only update once a week or so on most of my |
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machines, unless I am working on something specific which requires it. |
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I like to keep my trees separate, and even go so far as to keep a VMWare |
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image of x86 to fire up and test things on when I'm making changes to |
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the stable tree for x86 rather than ~x86. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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Is your power animal a penguin? |