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.
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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
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2016-05-04 21:39 ` Farid BENAMROUCHE
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2016-05-04 18:30 ` Farid BENAMROUCHE
2016-05-04 19:28 ` Ian Stakenvicius
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2016-04-30 19:03 ` Farid BENAMROUCHE
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