[gentoo-dev] New project: binhost

[Torokhov Sergey]

Maybe the expirience of Calculate Linux will be usefull. It's Gentoo based distributive that use portage/emerge and have huge set of prebuild packages in *.xpack format.

https://wiki.calculate-linux.org/calculate_vs_gentoo

10.02.2021, 20:58, "Andreas K. Hüttel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org>:

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

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Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfri...@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)