On 03/11/2015 11:56 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 11:34 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: >> 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]. > > I think you misunderstand, [1] is not what I want to do(I think): > > Got my src working copy and made a few modds, not commitet yet. > Now I just want build/test etc. before committing and to do that I just > run mytree/overlay/dev-util/myapp/myapp.ebuild compile and voila, my code is > built which I already have in mytree.
Well, you can create a -9999 ebuild that copies your sources from $directory to $WORKDIR. Maybe use an environment to configure whether it pulls from a local directory or a vcs repository. -- Thanks, Zac
