On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 19:51 +0100, Lars Wendler wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:57:48 +0200 Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm announcing a new project here - "binhost" > > > > "The Gentoo Binhost project aims to provide readily installable, > > precompiled packages for a subset of configurations, via central > > binary package hosting. Currently we are still in the conceptual > > planning stage. " > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Binhost > > > > If you're interested in helping out, feel free to add yourself on the > > wiki page. > > > > Note that I see actually *building* the packages not as the central > > point of the project (that could be e.g. a side effect of a > > tinderbox). I'm more concerned about > > * what configurations should we use > > * what portage features are still needed or need improvements (e.g. > > binpkg signing and verification) > > * how should hosting look like > > * and how we can test this on a limited scale before it goes "into > > production" > > * ... > > > > Comments, ideas, flamebaits? :D > > > > Cheers, > > Andreas > > > > It would be great to improve portage speed with handling binpkgs. I > already have my own binhost for a couple of Gentoo systems and even > though these systems don't have to compile anything themselves, > installing ~100 to ~200 binpkgs takes way more than an hour of > installation time. Arch Linux' pacman only takes a fraction of this > time for the very same task. > I know that I compare apples with pears here but even reducing the > current portage time by 50% would be a huge improvement.
Is that really a problem? For me, Portage takes about an hour just to do the dependency processing these days. In fact, building from sources is now faster than dependency calculations. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
