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From: Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] support multiple eclass variants (aka "unstable eclasses")
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:49:58
Message-Id: 53C3B5A7.3050600@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] support multiple eclass variants (aka "unstable eclasses") by Sebastian Luther
1 On 07/08/2014 07:11 PM, Sebastian Luther wrote:
2 > Am 08.07.2014 18:58, schrieb Michael Haubenwallner:
3 >> Hello fellow Portage developers,
4 >>
5 >> attached portage patch draft aims to allow for easy distributing eclasses to be tested by
6 >> multiple tinderboxes on various architectures, without being active for normal installs.
7 >
8 > What does the patch allow you to do, that you can't do right now? (i.e.
9 > put an eclass with the same name in an repository and use
10 > eclass-overrides to force its use in another repo?)
11
12 Is there an easy way to use the eclasses from the overriding tree, but not the (usually newer)
13 ebuilds from there - such as 'configure but disable repo (except for use in eclass-override)'?
14
15 Thanks!
16 /haubi/

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] support multiple eclass variants (aka "unstable eclasses") Sebastian Luther <SebastianLuther@×××.de>