Re: [gentoo-devhelp] Re: How do I select a specific Git "head" in live ebuilds?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday, August 28, 2010 21:48:09 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/28/2010 10:05 PM, James Cloos wrote:
> >Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de>  writes:
> > >  I tried putting:
> > >    EGIT_BRANCH="stable-0.4"
> > >
> > >  in the ebuild.  But this doesn't seem to help; "master" is emerged
> > >  instead of "stable-0.4".
> > >
> > >  What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Move the EGIT_ declarations earlier in the file.  IIRC, EGIT_BRANCH will
> > only work if it is before the inheirit.
> >
> > (It took me *quite* a bit of trial-and-error to get it to work the first
> > time I wanted to use a non-master HEAD.)
>
> That was indeed the problem.  Thank you very much!

this is standard behavior for all eclasses
-mike