On 8/25/25 4:08 PM, David Bryant wrote: > On Monday, August 25, 2025 7:04:47 AM Central Daylight Time Peter Humphrey > wrote: >> how can I find out what binpkgs are >> available for a given category/package? > > You'll find a list of all the binary packages at the OSU web site. > https://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/amd64/binpackages/23.0/x86-64/
That is a list of what category/package-versions are available. The question was, for a given category/package-version, how does one know what USE flag binary configurations are available. The listing on the website does not tell you that -- it only has monotonically incrementing integer IDs for "which numbered build is this". USE flags can be found by *downloading* the entire collection of files, untarring each one, and processing the portage metadata files contained inside the binpackage. You don't want to download 6x the packages to find that out. I already pointed out a way to get the info as well, from a single "Packages" index file, which is locally cached by portage already, at /var/cache/edb/binhost/gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/amd64/binpackages/23.0/x86-64/Packages -- Eli Schwartz
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