I thought a Subversion ebuild would be useful, particularly for testing. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 191569 [details] gentoolkit-9999.ebuild
Created attachment 191731 [details] gentoolkit-9999.ebuild Updates VERSION file to be "svn${ESVN_WC_REVISION}" Doesn't do /etc/gentoolkit-version anymore.
Created attachment 192307 [details, diff] gentoolkit-9999.ebuild-installVERSION.patch Actually installs the VERSION file. Also, as an aside, I noticed that some packages, notably glsa-check, fail when this file is not found. In many cases, when the file is found, the version information is not output anyway. In any case, some error-handling features requested.
Created attachment 192546 [details] Updated ebuild Here is the latest version of the ebuild that I have and will commit after verifying that it works as desired.
Ebuild is now in the tree