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From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Cc: gentoo-devhelp@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-devhelp] How do I select a specific Git "head" in live ebuilds?
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:05:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hbie1rsb.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i57k60$pph$1@dough.gmane.org> (Nikos Chantziaras's message of "Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:58:38 +0300")

>>>>> "NC" == Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> writes:

NC> I tried putting:

NC>   EGIT_BRANCH="stable-0.4"

NC> in the ebuild.  But this doesn't seem to help; "master" is emerged
NC> instead of "stable-0.4".

NC> What am I doing wrong?

Move the EGIT_ declarations earlier in the file.  IIRC, EGIT_BRANCH will
only work if it is before the inheirit.

(It took me *quite* a bit of trial-and-error to get it to work the first
time I wanted to use a non-master HEAD.)

-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-28 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-27  5:58 [gentoo-devhelp] How do I select a specific Git "head" in live ebuilds? Nikos Chantziaras
2010-08-27 19:53 ` Sergei Trofimovich
2010-08-28 19:05 ` James Cloos [this message]
2010-08-29  1:48   ` [gentoo-devhelp] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-08-29  2:28     ` Mike Frysinger

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