From: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org>
To: Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com>, gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where does Portage store what USE flags are required for binhost packages?
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 13:13:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb61599d-d531-4b78-9de9-a5886e1392ac@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6755dded.050a0220.16f112.3296@mx.google.com>
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On 12/8/24 12:57 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Eli,
>
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 10:24:42 -0500 you wrote:
>
>> ...
>> By the way you don't need to download the Packages file manually. It
>> will be in /var/cache/edb/binhost/ using a directory structure based on
>> your binhost uri.
>
> Great. Thankyou for this pointer!
>
> But: the file "/var/cache/edb/binhost/**/Packages" has a time stamp from
> December 2-nd and differs from the "Packages" file I downloaded manually
> yesterday. So when does Portage sync it? I ran "emaint sync -A" yes-
> terday and then experimented with "emerge --pretend". But this did not
> update file "/var/cache/edb/binhost/**/Packages".
>
> In any case the differences between these two files could well explain
> my problems.
It is definitely downloaded by emerge --pretend --getbinpkg.
It is not downloaded by emaint sync.
If neither FEATURES="getbinpkg" nor EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--getbinpkg"
are set, then you have to manually pass --getbinpkg on the CLI every
time you want binpackages -- correspondingly, it will only download the
Packages file when you manually pass --getbinpkg (as root). In theory,
this should mean you always have a fresh cached index any time you
actually check for binary updates...
It also will check the timestamp to figure out whether to redownload.
The downloaded file will have a new "DOWNLOAD_TIMESTAMP:" field but you
can ignore that specific line. A timestamp of December 2 is definitely
way too old.
...
So the two possibilities I can think of are that:
- you ran --pretend as non-root, so emerge couldn't update the index
- you usually update with -uDU --getbinpkg, and didn't pass --getbinpkg
with --pretend
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Eli Schwartz
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2024-12-08 14:57 [gentoo-user] Where does Portage store what USE flags are required for binhost packages? Dr Rainer Woitok
2024-12-08 15:24 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-12-08 17:57 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2024-12-08 18:13 ` Eli Schwartz [this message]
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