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On 10/20/2020 7:23 PM, tastytea wrote: |
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> On 2020-10-20 11:01-0700 Anton <anton.stay.connected@×××××.com> 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" |
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>> state, and run `emerge $mypackage` in the vanilla Prefix as a test. |
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>> Are there better strategies? |
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> There is a package to automate this, via docker: |
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> dev-python/ebuildtester. For other methods, see |
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> <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Test_environment>. |
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> Kind regards, tastytea |
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Thanks, tastytea, this is very helpful. |
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