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Daniel Drake wrote: |
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>Hi, |
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>Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing |
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>or testing software packages. |
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>Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not |
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>brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the latest version) is installed on my |
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>system, but more recently, they fixed a critical bug in the upstream CVS tree |
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>which I'd like to test the fix for. It's not dead simple for me to do this - I |
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>want to use the CVS sources with the ebuild already in portage. I have to use |
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>"ebuild foo-3.2.1.ebuild unpack" to extract the sources, then manually replace |
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>them with my CVS checkout. Or checkout CVS, make a new tarball, call it |
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>foo-3.2.1.tar.bz2, redigest and remerge the ebuild. Or I could create a |
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>foo-cvs ebuild and go to the trouble of making it mirror the contents of |
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>foo-3.2.1.ebuild exactly. |
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>It's great that its *possible* right now thanks to portage and co, but I'm |
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>interested in ways of making this easier. Before I give this more thought, I'd |
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>be interested to know if anyone has already got any scripts or tips :) |
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>Thanks, |
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>Daniel |
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Why do you semply add a "cat-ego/pack-cvs/pack-cvs.ebuild" near |
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"cat-ego/pack/pack.ebuild" without get bothered with virtual and similar |
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you can simply unmerge and remerge the brother package. |
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There are many examples of merging from cvs in portage tree. |
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just my my 1*10-7 cents |
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