[gentoo-devhelp] How do I select a specific Git "head" in live ebuilds?

[gentoo-devhelp] How do I select a specific Git "head" in live ebuilds?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

I am trying to create an ebuild that fetches a specific head from a Git 
repo.  As you can see here:

http://lmms.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lmms/lmms;a=summary

There are several "heads" listed: master, stable-0.4, calf-updates, etc. 
By default, the git eclass uses "master".  I tried putting:

   EGIT_BRANCH="stable-0.4"

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

What am I doing wrong?

Re: [gentoo-devhelp] How do I select a specific Git "head" in live ebuilds?

[Sergei Trofimovich]

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> I am trying to create an ebuild that fetches a specific head from a Git 
> repo.  As you can see here:
> 
> http://lmms.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lmms/lmms;a=summary
> 
> There are several "heads" listed: master, stable-0.4, calf-updates, etc. 
> By default, the git eclass uses "master".  I tried putting:
> 
>    EGIT_BRANCH="stable-0.4"
> 
> in the ebuild.  But this doesn't seem to help; "master" is emerged 
> instead of "stable-0.4".
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Hi Nikos!

I didn't dig seriously in eclass, but EGIT_TREE and _BRANCH both helped me.

EGIT_REPO_URI="git://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git"
EGIT_TREE="mob"
EGIT_BRANCH="mob"

Whole thing is here:

    http://repo.or.cz/w/slyfox-gentoo.git/blob_plain/aaa609469a6f819b8823ad45dc424eb18d24078c:/dev-lang/tcc/tcc-9999.ebuild

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  Sergei

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Re: [gentoo-devhelp] How do I select a specific Git "head" in live ebuilds?

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "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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[gentoo-devhelp] Re: How do I select a specific Git "head" in live ebuilds?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/28/2010 10:05 PM, James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "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

That was indeed the problem.  Thank you very much!

Re: [gentoo-devhelp] Re: How do I select a specific Git "head" in live ebuilds?

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Saturday, August 28, 2010 21:48:09 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/28/2010 10:05 PM, James Cloos wrote:
> >Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  writes:
> > >  I tried putting:
> > >    EGIT_BRANCH="stable-0.4"
> > >
> > >  in the ebuild.  But this doesn't seem to help; "master" is emerged
> > >  instead of "stable-0.4".
> > >
> > >  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.)
> 
> That was indeed the problem.  Thank you very much!

this is standard behavior for all eclasses
-mike

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