On 03/11/2015 09:03 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > When developing code it would be really nice if one could run your ebuild > on that src tree as is(no fetch, unpack etc.)
The existing convention is to create an ebuild with version 9999 and use one of the live vcs eclasses such as git-r3 to pull the live sources in the src_unpack function. In a future EAPI, we plan to add some features related to this [1]. > Then one can compile, install, build a binary pkg etc. just for test. That > way you shorten your > development/test cycle, get to > partially test your brand new ebuild, don't have write > custom build scripts etc. > > Any thoughts on this? > > Jocke > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182028 -- Thanks, Zac
