Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 17:32 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: > >><snip a bunch about binpkg> >> >>I think a key thing that is missing is build info that is only kept on >>the installed system. If we were to ever create a build server setup, we >>need to be able to have multiple binpkg's of the same version depending >>on differences between sub-arch, use flags, cflag differences, gcc >>version differences, etc. The key one i'm after is use flags. I'm not >>sure of the technical details behind it, but we need something to make >>the binpkgs more useful outside of the local system. Having the ebuild >>packed at the end is a great idea! I think its just time to extend the >>format to include more and possibly add things for build servers. > > > USE flags are stored in the package. The main thing is that portage > doesn't consider them, at all, unless you use --newuse, in which case if > the USE flags do not match, it will not use the package and will compile > from source. We use this every day in Release Engineering with > catalyst.
That maybe true, but if you're going to use such things on a build server, you need to be able to have multiple tars of the same package for the different use flags you may use. Maybe for one server setup I need useflag foo, but another setup I don't need it. This central repository needs to differentiate between those two needs. I know you could make two separate binpkg dirs for those cases, but thats not scalable at all. I was looking for something more generic. To summarize, differentiating use flags in gentoo binary packages isn't very scalable at the moment. A few rough ideas that just popped in my head is either packing all of these versions into one tarball (not even sure if thats feasible), or creating a hashed suffix based upon the useflags enabled/disabled at the time that you append to the tarball name. -- Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- GPG Public Key: <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc> Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net
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