On 2020-10-20 11:01-0700 Anton <anton.stay.connec...@gmail.com> 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?

There is a package to automate this, via docker:
dev-python/ebuildtester. For other methods, see
<https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Test_environment>.

Kind regards, tastytea

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