Hi Vadim, > Finally it happened! > I already planned to try to ask infra/council about sponsoring few > servers for build farm for "official gentoo binhosts" when I had > enough time, but fortunately, you've already did that. > It's very good news.
Thanks! Nice to see that this is appreciated :) So far I'm only using "spare time" on the machine that builds the releng stages (amd64, x86, m68k, riscv). So no need for a big server farm. > Btw, do you need any help with that? > I'd be very happy to help with that project. Sure! Feel free to add yourself to the Project:Binhost wiki page. I'll ask for an alias and a channel soon. The most useful steps now are only half related to actual building. I barely know any python and am not very familiar with portage internals... this is what in my opinion we'd need next: 1) a tool to manage and manipulate a binpkg/ directory tree The main functions that I see needed are * delete packages/versions that are not in the gentoo repository anymore (xpak and in index file), maybe with some grace time * merge xpak files built elsewhere into the directory (also in the index file) (imagine you have a second container that builds with same CFLAGS, but with use settings for gnome, not plasma... or with updated dependencies because of changes in gentoo.git... you want to merge the trees for distribution without having duplicate builds) 2) binary package cryptographic signing and verification Essentially we need to finish support for GLEP78; this is being worked on in RinCat's pull request https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/562 See also https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0078.html 3) an easy way to figure out if a binary package repo is suitable for a profile / arch / ... or not, and a standard for path names This is not so important right now, and partially also already present I guess. The actual builder right now is very simple and wired up with a single daily cron job; the mirrors are only updated manually by me until bug 813528 is handled. Cheers Andreas -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
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