ebuild with git and a special branch

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kingfame_147 · Post by **kingfame_147** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:26 am

Hi,

I'm using the xf86-video-ati from the x11 overlay, which uses the xorg-git.

Because of a problem with those drives I would like to use a special branch from that git repository named "origin/evergreen_accel". Is there a way to edit the ebuild to get use it with that branch? Would be mutch cleaner to have it all in portage and not compiling it by myself outside of portage.

I've never created an ebuild by my own, so please don't hurt me :D

Thanks for your help!

Regards,
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kingfame_147 · Post by **kingfame_147** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:40 pm

Hi,

I found the solution.

I copied the xf86-video-ati-9999.ebuild to my local_overlay (renamed it to 9999-r1) and added

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EGIT_BRANCH="evergreen_accel"

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That's all :) This will work with other git versions, too. I didn't find any official documentation about this.

Regards,
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chithanh · Post by **chithanh** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:33 pm

Rather than modifying the ebuild, you can use per-package environment in /etc/portage/env

kingfame_147 · Post by **kingfame_147** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:41 pm

Thanks for that hint. Works like it should. That is a better way of doing such a "hack" :)

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Sun May 26, 2013 11:14 am

... aaaannd resurrected

yes, great advice

also needed that change for my zfs-ebuilds for experimenting

even though I remember that it's also used on some overlay-embedded ebuilds I didn't now the exact line anymore ^^