On Saturday, 13 July 2024 14:18:09 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 at 14:42, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Where I live, updates to portage itself usually take longer to appear as a > > binary package than as source, so I can't 'getbinpkg'. Therefore I've set: > > > > # cat /etc/portage/env/nobinpkg.conf > > FEATURES="${FEATURES} -getbinpkg" > > > > # cat /etc/portage/package.env > > sys-apps/portage nobinpkg.conf > > > > But still portage wants to fetch the binary. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > I don't know what you're doing wrong, but FEATURES is an additive > variable, so adding the ${FEATURES} in there is not necessary.
I've tried it without that parenthesis but with no difference. > An alternative might be adding it to emerge default opts in make.conf: > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="${EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS} --usepkg-exclude > 'sys-apps/portage'" Interesting. I hadn't seen that construction before; I'll try it. Thanks Arve. -- Regards, Peter.