On Monday, 8 April 2024 22:14:30 BST Eli Schwartz wrote: > If you're okay doing a fresh install from a stage3 tar, which is faster > at least to install the base system because it is all precompiled and > you are not building the packages yourself, then I would assume you're > also okay doing the update using the gentoo.org official binhost. > > They're both just the binaries that Gentoo's release automation builds > for you. Extracting a bunch of gpkgs is much faster than compiling them, > and not too much slower than extracting a single stage3 tarball. > > It also has the advantage that for amd64, more than just the stage3 > package set can be sped up like this -- and you don't have to rebuild > the installation, recreate @world, backup and restore user data, etc. > > Just enable the binhost and then do the same -e @world you were doing > without the binhost. :)
There is one caveat, though: all the binary packages have been compiled with default USE flags. If you've changed any on your system, you'll still have to install those packages the standard way. I have 24 such USE settings on this machine. -- Regards, Peter.
