On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 7:12 AM Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 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)
eclean packages from gentoolkit does this exactly.
