On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:36:19AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > Quite often, I use Gentoo's from-source nature to my advantage when developing > or testing software packages. > > Gentoo is fairly well oriented for this kind of environment, but it's not > brilliant. As an example, foo-3.2.1 (the latest version) is installed on my > system, but more recently, they fixed a critical bug in the upstream CVS tree > which I'd like to test the fix for. It's not dead simple for me to do this - I > want to use the CVS sources with the ebuild already in portage. I have to use > "ebuild foo-3.2.1.ebuild unpack" to extract the sources, then manually replace > them with my CVS checkout. Or checkout CVS, make a new tarball, call it > foo-3.2.1.tar.bz2, redigest and remerge the ebuild. Or I could create a > foo-cvs ebuild and go to the trouble of making it mirror the contents of > foo-3.2.1.ebuild exactly. > > It's great that its *possible* right now thanks to portage and co, but I'm > interested in ways of making this easier. Before I give this more thought, I'd > be interested to know if anyone has already got any scripts or tips :)
Abuse the cvs eclass, and write an ebuild that does a co itself. If you're after basically having the unpack func switchable (are we cvs based, or are we working from a known tarball)... yeah, eww. :) ~brian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
