* Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] running ebuild in src tree
@ 2015-03-11 18:34 99% ` Zac Medico
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From: Zac Medico @ 2015-03-11 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-portage-dev
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
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Thanks,
Zac
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