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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
