Bug 69208 – make portage a virtual to allow for testing of development trees

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description solar (RETIRED) 2004-10-27 19:01:32 UTC]

The Attachment adds PROVIDE= support to the existing ebuilds in the portage tree.
Goal here is to make portage itself a virtual so that development versions of 
portage can be swapped in and out for more wide spread testing.

[Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) 2004-10-27 19:02:08 UTC]

Created attachment 42741 [details, diff]
virtual-portage_ebuilds.diff

Don't be lame. Add this.

[Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) 2004-11-16 12:48:02 UTC]

Still patches clean :)

cat virtual-portage_ebuilds.diff | patch --dry
patching file portage-2.0.50-r11.ebuild
Hunk #1 succeeded at 28 with fuzz 2 (offset 19 lines).
patching file portage-2.0.51-r2.ebuild
Hunk #1 succeeded at 29 with fuzz 2 (offset 20 lines).
patching file portage-2.0.51_rc7.ebuild
Hunk #1 succeeded at 29 with fuzz 2 (offset 20 lines).

[Comment 3 Brian Harring (RETIRED) 2005-02-28 01:27:19 UTC]

Anyone got a major beef over this?  It strikes me as wise, although spb's metapkg/versioned virtual glep should be out first...

[Comment 4 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2005-08-12 20:59:05 UTC]

I don't see the point of making it a virtual unless there is an actual secondary 
implementation.  Otherwise it's just clutter.

[Comment 5 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-10-16 01:49:45 UTC]

Done. 

[Comment 6 solar (RETIRED) 2005-10-17 06:59:21 UTC]

thanks