On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, at 14:01, Anton wrote: > Hi there, > > I am taking on maintaining a package in gentoo-sci overlay. What are > good ways to test that my ebuild works before creating a pull request? > > I am thinking to install a Gentoo Prefix, snapshot its "vanilla" state, > and run `emerge $mypackage` in the vanilla Prefix as a test. Are there > better strategies?
Generally, I just `sudo ebuild <path/to/software.ebuild> clean install merge' and test that it works directly on my system. I only proxy-maintain 1 package, though, so others will probably have much better workflows. Alec
