Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] running ebuild in src tree

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 12:03 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 03/11/2015 11:56 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 11:34 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> > > On 03/11/2015 09:03 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > > > When developing code it would be really nice if one could run your ebuild
> > > > on that src tree as is(no fetch, unpack etc.)
> > >
> > > The existing convention is to create an ebuild with version 9999 and use one of the live vcs eclasses
> > > such
> > > as git-r3 to pull the live sources in the src_unpack function. In a future EAPI, we plan to add some
> > > features related to this [1].
> >
> > I think you misunderstand, [1] is not what I want to do(I think):
> >
> > Got my src working copy and made a few modds, not commitet yet. Now I just want build/test etc. before
> > committing and to do that I just run mytree/overlay/dev-util/myapp/myapp.ebuild compile and voila, my
> > code is
> > built which I already have in mytree.
>
> Well, you can create a -9999 ebuild that copies your sources from $directory to $WORKDIR. Maybe use an
> environment to configure whether it pulls from a local directory or a vcs repository.

No copy, just use the current sources. I realize this is not supported ATM but I think
it would be a very useful extension. It could just be an extra option or two to ebuild

  Jocke