Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

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: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:49:33
Message-Id: 53BC2F28.5060900@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] support multiple eclass variants (aka "unstable eclasses") by Sebastian Luther
1 Am 2014-07-08 19:11, schrieb Sebastian Luther:
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 Ohw, haven't been aware of that - will try first.
13
14 Thanks!
15 /haubi/