Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Sebastian Luther <SebastianLuther@×××.de>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] support multiple eclass variants (aka "unstable eclasses")
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:11:23
Message-Id: 53BC2636.1070309@gmx.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] support multiple eclass variants (aka "unstable eclasses") by Michael Haubenwallner
1 Am 08.07.2014 18:58, schrieb Michael Haubenwallner:
2 > Hello fellow Portage developers,
3 >
4 > attached portage patch draft aims to allow for easy distributing eclasses to be tested by
5 > multiple tinderboxes on various architectures, without being active for normal installs.
6
7 What does the patch allow you to do, that you can't do right now? (i.e.
8 put an eclass with the same name in an repository and use
9 eclass-overrides to force its use in another repo?)
10
11 >
12 > Usage is to have in make.conf (or profile): PORTAGE_ECLASS_VARIANTS="testing"
13 > and for the eclass: to live in tree-or-overlay/eclass/testing/
14 >
15 > Thoughts? (even for var-naming, manpage yes/no/wording, ...)
16 >
17
18 There are lots of places to update (including python code). See git grep
19 eclass.
20
21 > Thank you!
22 > /haubi/
23 >

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