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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re : Cannot see my eclass modifications
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 18:26:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <682118BC-67B3-48C6-B8B2-A3CB23B8DC9F@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <844174820.53777.1462311750309.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>


> On May 3, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Farid BENAMROUCHE <fariouche@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm still searching for the reason why I'm not seeing my eclass modifications... no luck so far.
> 
> What can I do to debug portage's behavior?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> En date de : Sam 30.4.16, Farid BENAMROUCHE <fariouche@yahoo.fr> a écrit :
> 
> Objet: Re : Cannot see my eclass modifications
> À: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
> Date: Samedi 30 avril 2016, 20h03
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>  I'm currently developping a patch for user.eclass, but I'm
>  banging my head against a wall...
> 
>  So for testing first, I've setup an overlay, and I now
> that
>  it is taken in account by portage (If I rename portage's
>  user.eclass, emerge is still working. If I remove my
>  overlay, emerge complains about missing user eclass. So my
>  overlay is actually working)
>  I've modified enewgroup and egetent for example and put
> some
>  einfo and also modified some other stuffs to be sure that
>  I'm entering the function....
> 
>  Then emerge sys-power/nut, I can see the pkg-setup traces,
>  just after the call to enewgroup... but still cannot see
> my
>  eclass modifications!
>  I tried to modify directly the
>  /usr/portage/eclass/user.eclass file, but still the same
>  issue...
>  I'm totally puzzled about this point! I'm most likely
>  missing a stupid point somewhere...
> 
>  Anyone knows what could be the problem? Please let me know
>  what traces/info you need and I will post them.
> 
>  Thank you!
> 
> 


You can't override the eclass used by ebuilds in another repo by default.  You have to  edit /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf and adjust a setting.  Man portage or googling about repos.conf should provide more info.






  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-03 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2016-05-03 21:42 ` [gentoo-dev] Re : Cannot see my eclass modifications Farid BENAMROUCHE
2016-05-03 22:26   ` Ian Stakenvicius [this message]
2016-05-03 22:39   ` Mike Gilbert
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2016-05-05 11:48 ` Farid BENAMROUCHE
     [not found] <531674706.1193068.1462397968880.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2016-05-04 21:39 ` Farid BENAMROUCHE
     [not found] <1205071355.1003943.1462386628387.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2016-05-04 18:30 ` Farid BENAMROUCHE
2016-05-04 19:28   ` Ian Stakenvicius
     [not found] <625675172.8099045.1462042999392.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2016-04-30 19:03 ` Farid BENAMROUCHE

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