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On 22/02/13 11:19 AM, Duncan wrote: |
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> Rich Freeman posted on Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:09:32 -0500 as |
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> excerpted: |
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>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> |
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>> wrote: |
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>>> You can also use git-2 eclass-specific variables to switch the |
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>>> repo. The only difference is that you need to specify the full |
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>>> repo URI rather than just the author. |
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>> The full repo URI is actually copy-pastable from github, while |
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>> breaking everything up requires a few steps to configure it all. |
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>> I could see some value in being able to switch forks, but that |
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>> seems like a bit of a niche. If you REALLY want to follow |
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>> another fork you're better off creating a new ebuild rather than |
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>> just overriding the environment variable. You can also override |
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>> the repo URI if it uses the git eclass and again that can be |
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>> copy/pasted. |
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> I I'm involved with pan upstream, I keep a slightly rewritten copy |
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> of the net-nntp/pan-9999 ebuild in my overlay, synced to the one in |
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> the tree. The main difference between it and the tree version is |
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> that my version has: |
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> [[ $EGIT_PROJECT ]] || EGIT_PROJECT="${PN}2" [[ $EGIT_REPO_URI ]] |
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> || EGIT_REPO_URI="git://git.gnome.org/ ${EGIT_PROJECT}" [[ |
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> $EGIT_BRANCH ]] || EGIT_BRANCH=master [[ $EGIT_COMMIT ]] || |
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> EGIT_COMMIT=$EGIT_BRANCH |
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> That allows me to keep an /etc/portage/env/net-nntp/pan file where |
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> I can set those as I wish, as well as keep (normally commented) |
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> vars such as EGIT_COMMIT, EGIT_OFFLINE, etc. |
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> =:^) |
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git-2.eclass allows environment based overrides via ${PN}_LIVE_REPO=, |
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${PN}_LIVE_BRANCH=, and ${PN}_LIVE_COMMIT= |
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it would seem that the only thing you would need to do outside of |
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those is the override for EGIT_PROJECT. |
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