Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost

[Torokhov Sergey]

Yes, it seems they use that approach as the binary repos are called "grp".

At the same time they provide binary builds for set of packages not only on release but as rolling too.

 

They repository is available as Gentoo Calculate Overlay but I never tries to add it and use so I don't know how it affect system.

 

Anyway own Gentoo binhost is great idea and will be very usefull.

 

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Sergey Torokhov

13.03.2021, 13:48, "Marco Scardovi" <ma...@scardovi.com>:

Hi there,

Well, actually you could take a look on GRP project as, if I understand, was similar to what you would like to do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux#Gentoo_Reference_Platform

Unfortunately this project was closed on 2011, so lots of things are changed, but could be a good start

Il Sab 13 Mar 2021, 09:44 Torokhov Sergey <torokhov-...@yandex.ru> ha scritto:

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)