From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] running ebuild in src tree
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:34:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55008A9F.1060705@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426089808.31989.42.camel@transmode.se>
On 03/11/2015 09:03 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> When developing code it would be really nice if one could run your ebuild
> on that src tree as is(no fetch, unpack etc.)
The existing convention is to create an ebuild with version 9999 and use
one of the live vcs eclasses such as git-r3 to pull the live sources in
the src_unpack function. In a future EAPI, we plan to add some features
related to this [1].
> Then one can compile, install, build a binary pkg etc. just for test. That way you shorten your
> development/test cycle, get to
> partially test your brand new ebuild, don't have write
> custom build scripts etc.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Jocke
>
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182028
--
Thanks,
Zac
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-11 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-11 16:03 [gentoo-portage-dev] running ebuild in src tree Joakim Tjernlund
2015-03-11 18:34 ` Zac Medico [this message]
2015-03-11 18:56 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2015-03-11 19:03 ` Zac Medico
2015-03-11 19:08 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2015-03-11 19:19 ` Zac Medico
2015-03-12 1:27 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] " Duncan
2015-03-12 17:26 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2015-03-13 6:32 ` Duncan
2015-03-13 8:13 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2015-03-13 10:58 ` Duncan
2015-03-15 0:52 ` Alec Warner
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