What's your ebuild workflow?

[admax88]

This is a question (or series of questions) for anyone who maintains an overlay and/or maintains ebuilds in the main portage tree.

1) Do you write ebuilds as a regular user on your computer and then copy them to some overlay as root to try installing?

2) Is there a way to test install an ebuild as a normal user?

3) What commands do you use for testing your ebuilds?

4) Is there a way to test say just the build step of your ebuild with having portage go through the install phase?

Or in general, what specifically is your workflow for testing and writing new ebuilds?

Every now and then I write or update an ebuild for a new package that hasn't been bumped in the main portage tree. I think this information would be helpful to gentoo users who like to help out and/or are thinking of becoming gentoo devs.

Thanks for sharing!

EDIT: I think this should probably have been in the "Gentoo Chat" forum sorry, mods please move if necessary

[Genone]

[admax88]

Thanks for the reply, I didn't even know about the portage group. That really makes life a lot simpler.