Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-16 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 7/15/24 5:54 AM, J. Aho wrote: > The main issue is that you aren't syncing portage towards the bin > server, which makes things out of sync and those you will be building a > lot of the packages instead of fetching the binary files when they are > built. As noted earlier, it's more

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 16 July 2024 09:50:00 BST Michael wrote: > I recall having some trouble with bytemark in the past. Now you mention it, so do I, but I've been using it for quite a while now with no problems. I suppose servers come and go... -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-16 Thread Michael
On Monday, 15 July 2024 13:36:19 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 15 July 2024 10:54:37 BST J. Aho wrote: > > The main issue is that you aren't syncing portage towards the bin > > server, which makes things out of sync and those you will be building a > > lot of the packages instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 15 July 2024 10:54:37 BST J. Aho wrote: > The main issue is that you aren't syncing portage towards the bin > server, which makes things out of sync and those you will be building a > lot of the packages instead of fetching the binary files when they are > built. One way to come around

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-15 Thread J. Aho
On 13/07/2024 14.50, Peter Humphrey wrote: 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: The main issue is that you aren't syncing portage towards the bin server, which makes things out of

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-15 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 15/07/2024 07:22, Dale wrote: >> Is this about the -1 or --oneshot option? > > Yes. > > Once your system is stable it's a damn good idea :-) > > Cheers, > Wol > > On my recent new rig build, once I installed everything from the world file from my old system, I added that

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-15 Thread Wols Lists
On 15/07/2024 07:22, Dale wrote: Is this about the -1 or --oneshot option? Yes. Once your system is stable it's a damn good idea :-) Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-15 Thread Dale
Wol wrote: > On 14/07/2024 14:15, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Yes, I have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=8 --load-average=8 >> --autounmask=n -- >> keep-going  --nospinner" >> >> Nothing contentious there, I'd have thought. > > I didn't think I had anything contentious - --once-only and that was > about

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 7/14/24 8:04 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 14 July 2024 07:05:04 BST Eli Schwartz wrote: > >> As a matter of curiosity, why do you need to do any such thing at all? >> >> If there is no binary package available for portage yet, then portage >> will automatically build it from source

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Wol
On 14/07/2024 14:15, Peter Humphrey wrote: Yes, I have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=8 --load-average=8 --autounmask=n -- keep-going --nospinner" Nothing contentious there, I'd have thought. I didn't think I had anything contentious - --once-only and that was about it. I think that was

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 14 July 2024 13:22:14 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 14/07/2024 13:04, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > It doesn't do that here. It tries to fetch the binary and bombs out when > > it can't be found. Then I have to edit make.conf to update Gentoo, then > > put it back as it was for the rest of the

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Wols Lists
On 14/07/2024 13:04, Peter Humphrey wrote: It doesn't do that here. It tries to fetch the binary and bombs out when it can't be found. Then I have to edit make.conf to update Gentoo, then put it back as it was for the rest of the system. Do you have PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTIONS or whatever it's

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 14 July 2024 07:05:04 BST Eli Schwartz wrote: > As a matter of curiosity, why do you need to do any such thing at all? > > If there is no binary package available for portage yet, then portage > will automatically build it from source instead, which is exactly what > setting

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread netfab
Le 14/07/24 à 02:18, Peter Humphrey a tapoté : > It works, but what's wrong with the way I tried it? Here is the explanation : https://bugs.gentoo.org/463964 > Currently, FEATURES=getbinpkg only works as a global setting. And from :

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Dale
Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 7/13/24 8:42 AM, Peter Humphrey 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 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 7/13/24 8:42 AM, Peter Humphrey 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" > > #

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 13 July 2024 15:49:00 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 13 July 2024 14:18:09 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: --->8 > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 13 July 2024 14:18:09 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 at 14:42, Peter Humphrey 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: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-13 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 at 14:42, Peter Humphrey 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}

[gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
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