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From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
To: Catalyst <gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org>
Cc: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Subject: [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 4/4] doc/HOWTO.txt: Explain how to run catalyst without installing
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:40:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bac082048f4eb6da22ed518b5ce14678aa3652ad.1360441874.git.wking@tremily.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1360441874.git.wking@tremily.us>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1360441874.git.wking@tremily.us>

From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>

Thanks to Chris White for explaining this to me.
---
 doc/HOWTO.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/HOWTO.txt b/doc/HOWTO.txt
index ea9c8f4..5717f80 100644
--- a/doc/HOWTO.txt
+++ b/doc/HOWTO.txt
@@ -202,3 +202,18 @@ and `dd`:
 replacing `X` with the appropriate drive letter for your USB disk.
 See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251719[bug 251719] for
 details.
+
+Running catalyst from a Git checkout
+------------------------------------
+
+If you're developing catalyst, you'll want to test your altered
+version.  An easy way to run it without reinstalling is to setup a
+local configuration file and run:
+
+    # ./catalyst -c catalyst.conf -f path/to/your.spec
+
+The local configuration file can use all the defaults except for
+`sharedir`, which you should change to point to your development
+directory:
+
+    sharedir="/home/wking/src/catalyst"
-- 
1.8.1.336.g94702dd



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-09 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-09 20:40 [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 0/4] HOWTO to get newbies started W. Trevor King
2013-02-09 20:40 ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 1/4] doc/HOWTO: First pass at a gentle Catalyst introduction W. Trevor King
2013-02-23  2:04   ` Matt Turner
2013-02-09 20:40 ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 2/4] Makefile: Add DOCS for building files/HOWTO.html W. Trevor King
2013-02-23  2:04   ` Matt Turner
2013-02-23 15:08     ` W. Trevor King
2013-02-09 20:40 ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 3/4] files/.gitignore: Ignore $(DOCS) and $(DOC_SIDE_EFFECTS) W. Trevor King
2013-02-09 20:40 ` W. Trevor King [this message]
2013-02-21 20:35 ` [gentoo-catalyst] Re: [PATCH 0/4] HOWTO to get newbies started W. Trevor King
2013-02-21 21:47   ` Matt Turner
2013-02-21 21:58     ` W. Trevor King
2013-02-23  2:02       ` Matt Turner
2013-03-09  2:39 ` [gentoo-catalyst] " Matt Turner

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