Re: [gentoo-dev] --usepkg in emerge

[Marius Mauch <genone@genone.homeip.net>]

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

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