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 :) > >Thanks, >Daniel > > Why do you semply add a "cat-ego/pack-cvs/pack-cvs.ebuild" near "cat-ego/pack/pack.ebuild" without get bothered with virtual and similar you can simply unmerge and remerge the brother package. There are many examples of merging from cvs in portage tree.
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