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From: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@×××××××××.se>
To: "gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o" <gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] running ebuild in src tree
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:56:32
Message-Id: 1426100187.31989.54.camel@transmode.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] running ebuild in src tree by Zac Medico
1 On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 11:34 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 03/11/2015 09:03 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
3 > > When developing code it would be really nice if one could run your ebuild
4 > > on that src tree as is(no fetch, unpack etc.)
5 >
6 > The existing convention is to create an ebuild with version 9999 and use one of the live vcs eclasses such
7 > as git-r3 to pull the live sources in the src_unpack function. In a future EAPI, we plan to add some
8 > features related to this [1].
9
10 I think you misunderstand, [1] is not what I want to do(I think):
11
12 Got my src working copy and made a few modds, not commitet yet.
13 Now I just want build/test etc. before committing and to do that I just
14 run mytree/overlay/dev-util/myapp/myapp.ebuild compile and voila, my code is
15 built which I already have in mytree.
16
17 >
18 > > Then one can compile, install, build a binary pkg etc. just for test. That way you shorten your
19 > > development/test cycle, get to
20 > > partially test your brand new ebuild, don't have write
21 > > custom build scripts etc.
22 > >
23 > > Any thoughts on this?
24 > >
25 > > Jocke
26 > >
27 >
28 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182028

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] running ebuild in src tree Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>