I love gentoo but can sympathize with thoughs like yourself on a 450 :) Actually the packages repos would be whatever is on the arch cd. For example when in a rush on my p4 i download the bindist iso. All the packages there are compiled for p4. Now i understand that same package cd wouldnt work on my athlonxp. But here is what i am saying. Take the contents of the bindist cd. Put it on a webserver
export BINDIST_ROOT="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/bindinst/pentium4/"; emerge -k gnome tadda! (a little sidenote; if any pair.com guys/gals are reading I love the mirror....very quick all the time....thanks for supporting this community and the O*Bsd community) Nick On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:37:17 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 10:15 pm, Valarie and Nick Schmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not have something like the package cd from the > > install....bindist.....maybe an option to have emerge -k pull from a > > website? There are many times i need a quick system and program to get > > up and running. > > Because, except under fairly controlled circumstances, any precompiled > binary won't work. > > For example, there are almost certainly issues with using packages compiled > with CHOST=i386-pc-linux-gnu on a CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu system. [Don't > change CHOST after stage 1, IIRC the docs correctly.] > > I *know* there are issues running a program compiled with gcc 3.3 on a > system that's gcc 3.4 only. (Throw 2.95 in there and you have a receipe > for disaster.) > > When you can control these circumstances, you can set up portage to use > binary packages from a local repositiory. I assume you could even make > your repository public and anyone with a similar enough setup could use > it. [For most packages, it is sufficent to have the same CHOST and > toolchain (compiler, linker, etc.)] > > Of course, non-C{++,} packages might not have these restrictions, or others > instead. > > Finally, you have to do USE management. I believe the binary packages > contain the USE information, but I don't think the name varies (so it's > hard to have multiple versions) when the USE flags change. So, if even a > single important USE is different that how the binary is compiled, you'll > have to recompile to see the changes anyway. > > I do feel the pain of compiling: I'm running a PII 450, but if you want the > flexibility gentoo gives you, you have to put up with it. > > [Well, I suppose you don't have to, but there are *a lot* of problems that > have to be solved before we'll see a general-purpose gentoo binary > mirror.] > > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
