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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Strategies for testing an ebuild
From:       Anton <anton.stay.connected () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-10-21 19:33:10
Message-ID: 1edd6f9a-8a08-923d-f58a-391e7eff3bc6 () gmail ! com
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On 10/20/2020 7:23 PM, tastytea wrote:
> On 2020-10-20 11:01-0700 Anton <anton.stay.connected@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
Thanks, tastytea, this is very helpful.

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