Re: [gentoo-dev] Using cvs as your portage directory

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 20:26, Md Mooktakim Ahmed wrote:
> I was thinking. Wouldn't it be better if the portage tree was split into mutiple modules
> in cvs?
> That way you can update individual modules (or directories inside /usr/portage) at a
> time. that means less stress on the server and you can work on the files you want, when
> you want, fairly easily.
>
> Just thinking it might be best to do that.

cd /home/wolf31o2/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/games-fps
cvs up

That will update only that one area of portage from CVS.  That seems
simple enough.  I rarely update my entire tree, maybe once a month just
to keep it from becoming totally stale.  This also has me testing things
with older versions of packages to check if they work.  I tend to prefer
to put the lowest possible version allowable in *DEPEND that I can test
with and ensure works.

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