Re: [gentoo-user] Strategies for testing an ebuild

2020-10-21 Thread Anton
On 10/20/2020 7:23 PM, tastytea wrote: On 2020-10-20 11:01-0700 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Strategies for testing an ebuild

2020-10-20 Thread tastytea
On 2020-10-20 11:01-0700 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Strategies for testing an ebuild

2020-10-20 Thread Steve Wilson
I've had my own overlay for a while, maintaining my own versions of plex, new relic and even some removed packages that I use. Until the the other day I was just making sure they install and work for myself, I have now discovered repoman and have several issues which actually need tidying up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strategies for testing an ebuild

2020-10-20 Thread Jack
On 2020.10.20 16:57, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: 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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Strategies for testing an ebuild

2020-10-20 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
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

[gentoo-user] Strategies for testing an ebuild

2020-10-20 Thread Anton
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