From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C80F11382C5 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:52:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8D0AE0A5A; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:51:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.aisha.cc (mail.aisha.cc [108.61.81.40]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 791B8E0A52 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:51:42 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=aisha.cc; s=excisionRSA; t=1612983098; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=DWCAu2VSz76zkms+KZ7yArry32ItLO+R+yH6Gv/8A38=; b=DVx6RzcO2wvvTpsyAoHTeOTueIF3NblpRWSZHQqVQIBnL6tUWnswI9utM7U46zNF+871NK OHcrDkK1HV4W+ogGRSzDQlcpbxD68+8AhOxREYOEH3ICNIYF83aMD9GLyowDFCmjEaFB6m Ug1q/L1JnZpamhloTZwldNUZH5TEbAInWFkDtfHgrMXNmabiXT+uLq2+5kQW13yrG8VJqQ ZlnVclBBDhPt1ppK2iJrOb5Yn7Mdfe32CoOvpyDmnj7uGBiC4tMjQzo3spdxeKI3xvqH3V sjfuI4ompMR67vfilVj2KaBg2hpQLBghbNt7+uEAMmZ0YzliAWYOboEgyT/r3w== Received: from [192.168.1.112] (c-73-215-141-174.hsd1.nj.comcast.net [73.215.141.174]) by mail.aisha.cc (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 7efb0c9b (TLSv1.3:AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) auth=yes user=aisha@aisha.cc for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:51:37 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <24819743.1r3eYUQgxm@farino> From: Aisha Tammy Message-ID: <7f12727f-bbce-982d-227d-1e579fa15287@aisha.cc> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:51:35 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <24819743.1r3eYUQgxm@farino> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Archives-Salt: 123f0d8a-8ec6-4d8e-b89e-2daa2f460d17 X-Archives-Hash: a1c94cdbd5d11a5f2351b79a2691e8f8 On 2/10/21 12:57 PM, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm announcing a new project here - "binhost" > > "The Gentoo Binhost project aims to provide readily installable, precompiled > packages for a subset of configurations, via central binary package hosting. > Currently we are still in the conceptual planning stage. " > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Binhost > > If you're interested in helping out, feel free to add yourself on the wiki > page. > > Note that I see actually *building* the packages not as the central point of > the project (that could be e.g. a side effect of a tinderbox). I'm more > concerned about > * what configurations should we use maybe to start with, desktop profiles (gnome/qt/none + systemd/openrc) are a good idea, these are the people who would benefit most. This may not be enough, most people also enable extra flags polkit/elogind/ttf/otf/wayland/pulseaudio We can start with a default and gather feedback as to what new flags should be enabled. > * what portage features are still needed or need improvements (e.g. binpkg > signing and verification) somehow checking valid CFLAG/etc. compatibility, not sure how. Some packages fail when built with differing flags > * how should hosting look like Something like the list of profiles in eselect profile (replace https by protocol of choice):   https://binpkg.gentoo.org/amd64/17.1/desktop/   https://binpkg.gentoo.org/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/ could potentially also be mirrored on rsync mirrors. Cheers, Aisha > * and how we can test this on a limited scale before it goes "into production" > * ... > > Comments, ideas, flamebaits? :D > > Cheers, > Andreas >