New Gentoo live ebuild for Mercurial (tracks main repo)

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

We (nelchael and me) just finished a live ebuild for Mercurial which allows to 
conveniently track the main (mpm) repo of Mercurial in Gentoo, and I thought 
that might interest some of you, too.

To use the ebuild, just add

    =dev-util/mercurial-9999 **  

to your package.keywords and emerge mercurial (again).

It took us a while since we had to revise the Mercurial eclass to always build 
Mercurial live packages from their Mercurial repository and nelchael took the 
chance to completely overhaul the eclass.

If you're interested in the details, please have a look at the ebuild and the 
eclass as well as the tracking bug.

- ebuild: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-
util/mercurial/mercurial-9999.ebuild?view=markup
- eclass: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-
x86/eclass/mercurial.eclass?view=markup
- tracking bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/251163


To use the eclass in an ebuild, just add "inherit mercurial" at the beginning 
of the ebuild and set "EHG_REPO_URI" to the correct repository URI. If you 
need to share a single repository between several ebuilds, set "EHG_PROJECT" 
to the project name in all of them.

Have fun with Mercurial!

Arne

PS: I also published this post on my site: 
http://draketo.de/light/english/mercurial/gentoo-live-ebuild-mercurial
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