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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/28/2010 10:05 PM, James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "NC" == Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de>  writes:
>
> NC>  I tried putting:
>
> NC>    EGIT_BRANCH="stable-0.4"
>
> NC>  in the ebuild.  But this doesn't seem to help; "master" is emerged
> NC>  instead of "stable-0.4".
>
> NC>  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.)
>
> -JimC

That was indeed the problem.  Thank you very much!