Re: [gentoo-dev] Re : Cannot see my eclass modifications

[Ian Stakenvicius]

> On May 3, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Farid BENAMROUCHE <fariouche@×××××.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm still searching for the reason why I'm not seeing my eclass modifications... no luck so far.
>
> What can I do to debug portage's behavior?
>
> Thank you
>
> --------------------------------------------
> En date de : Sam 30.4.16, Farid BENAMROUCHE <fariouche@×××××.fr> a écrit :
>
> Objet: Re : Cannot see my eclass modifications
> À: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
> Date: Samedi 30 avril 2016, 20h03
>
> Hi all,
>
>  I'm currently developping a patch for user.eclass, but I'm
>  banging my head against a wall...
>
>  So for testing first, I've setup an overlay, and I now
> that
>  it is taken in account by portage (If I rename portage's
>  user.eclass, emerge is still working. If I remove my
>  overlay, emerge complains about missing user eclass. So my
>  overlay is actually working)
>  I've modified enewgroup and egetent for example and put
> some
>  einfo and also modified some other stuffs to be sure that
>  I'm entering the function....
>
>  Then emerge sys-power/nut, I can see the pkg-setup traces,
>  just after the call to enewgroup... but still cannot see
> my
>  eclass modifications!
>  I tried to modify directly the
>  /usr/portage/eclass/user.eclass file, but still the same
>  issue...
>  I'm totally puzzled about this point! I'm most likely
>  missing a stupid point somewhere...
>
>  Anyone knows what could be the problem? Please let me know
>  what traces/info you need and I will post them.
>
>  Thank you!
>
>


You can't override the eclass used by ebuilds in another repo by default.  You have to  edit /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf and adjust a setting.  Man portage or googling about repos.conf should provide more info.