Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

[Francesco Riosa <francesco@pnpitalia.it>]

Daniel Drake wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing
>or testing software packages.
>
>Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not
>brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the latest version) is installed on my
>system, but more recently, they fixed a critical bug in the upstream CVS tree
>which I'd like to test the fix for. It's not dead simple for me to do this - I
>want to use the CVS sources with the ebuild already in portage. I have to use
>"ebuild foo-3.2.1.ebuild unpack" to extract the sources, then manually replace
>them with my CVS checkout. Or checkout CVS, make a new tarball, call it
>foo-3.2.1.tar.bz2, redigest and remerge the ebuild. Or I could create a
>foo-cvs ebuild and go to the trouble of making it mirror the contents of
>foo-3.2.1.ebuild exactly.
>
>It's great that its *possible* right now thanks to portage and co, but I'm
>interested in ways of making this easier. Before I give this more thought, I'd
>be interested to know if anyone has already got any scripts or tips :)
>
>Thanks,
>Daniel
>  
>
Why do you semply add a "cat-ego/pack-cvs/pack-cvs.ebuild" near
"cat-ego/pack/pack.ebuild" without get bothered with virtual and similar
you can simply unmerge and remerge the brother package.
There are many examples of merging from cvs in portage tree.

just my my 1*10-7 cents


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