From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15308 invoked by uid 1002); 30 Jul 2003 23:26:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14369 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2003 23:26:00 -0000 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:25:24 -0700 From: Matt Thrailkill To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030730162524.665591bb.xwred1@xwredwing.net> In-Reply-To: <20030731002528.6c591888.genone@genone.homeip.net> References: <200307302335.27460.fredan-gentoo-list@fredan.org> <20030731002528.6c591888.genone@genone.homeip.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] --usepkg in emerge X-Archives-Salt: 9f45ffa4-2cb2-4165-979a-e8850038c130 X-Archives-Hash: 80eadc40a7c986a0f429611f1ea3a003 This would be a handy option to have. I've got a side project going where I'm trying to maintain my own separate Portage trees, and eventually I'd like to build binaries for everything in them and have my boxes install those optionally rather than compiling. On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:25:28 +0200 Marius Mauch wrote: > On 07/30/03 fredrik danerklint wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Is it possible, that when you are using --usepkg with emerge, could > > get emerge to download the binarie file from a server, just like it > > would if you're gonna compile the source code? > > > > And could I set this feature in the variable "feature"? I didn't see > > that it was possible. > > > > What I'm trying to say, is that some kind of option in /etc/make.conf > > you could use, just like the variable "gentoo_mirrors" but instead > > have it to download the binarie file from a list of server, if the > > file is availible. > > > > If the variable was called "gentoo_binaries" it would look like this: > > GENTOO_BINARIES="http://ftp.fredan.org/gentoo/binaries/amd-athlonxp" > > to get the binaries files optimized for amd athlon xp processor. > > The 2.0.49 portage versions have some support for this, but it is still > experimental if I got it right and not documented yet. The new -g and -G > options are for this. > > Marius > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list