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On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, at 14:01, Anton wrote: |
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> Hi there, |
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> I am taking on maintaining a package in gentoo-sci overlay. What are |
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> good ways to test that my ebuild works before creating a pull request? |
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> I am thinking to install a Gentoo Prefix, snapshot its "vanilla" state, |
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> and run `emerge $mypackage` in the vanilla Prefix as a test. Are there |
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> better strategies? |
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Generally, I just `sudo ebuild <path/to/software.ebuild> clean install merge' |
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and test that it works directly on my system. I only proxy-maintain 1 package, |
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though, so others will probably have much better workflows. |
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Alec |
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