[gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same?

[gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same?

[Pandu Poluan]

Please forgive my (probably) stupid question:

Are the distfiles in /usr/portage/distfiles identical for both amd64
and x86 Gentoo?

Rgds,
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same?

[Yohan Pereira]

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On Monday 13 Jun 2011 12:29:27 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Are the distfiles in /usr/portage/distfiles identical for both amd64
> and x86 Gentoo?

Well in most cases if the versions of the packages installed are same then the 
distfiles are same. But sometimes certain ebuilds are masked for different 
archs so you'll have different versions installed on your x86 and amd64 
machines, in that case the distfiles for those packages would be different. 
Also there mite be certain ebuilds that install binary files like flash those 
would be incompatible too.
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- Yohan Pereira

"A man can do as he will, but not will as he will" - Schopenhauer

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same?

[Pandu Poluan]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 13:02, Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 13 Jun 2011 12:29:27 Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
>> Are the distfiles in /usr/portage/distfiles identical for both amd64
>
>> and x86 Gentoo?
>
> Well in most cases if the versions of the packages installed are same then
> the distfiles are same. But sometimes certain ebuilds are masked for
> different archs so you'll have different versions installed on your x86 and
> amd64 machines, in that case the distfiles for those packages would be
> different. Also there mite be certain ebuilds that install binary files like
> flash those would be incompatible too.
>

Hmmm...

But different distfiles will have different names, right?

Rgds,
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same?

[Dale]

Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 13:02, Yohan Pereira<yohan.pereira@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On Monday 13 Jun 2011 12:29:27 Pandu Poluan wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Are the distfiles in /usr/portage/distfiles identical for both amd64
>>>        
>>      
>>> and x86 Gentoo?
>>>        
>> Well in most cases if the versions of the packages installed are same then
>> the distfiles are same. But sometimes certain ebuilds are masked for
>> different archs so you'll have different versions installed on your x86 and
>> amd64 machines, in that case the distfiles for those packages would be
>> different. Also there mite be certain ebuilds that install binary files like
>> flash those would be incompatible too.
>>
>>      
> Hmmm...
>
> But different distfiles will have different names, right?
>
> Rgds,
>    

In the case of a binary, it should.  If it didn't, portage wouldn't know 
which one it was getting.  It may not be a good idea to put a amd64 
binary on a x86 machine.  May not work to well.  So, they should be 
different.

As mentioned before, flash would be one case, video drivers could be 
another if they are binaries as well.  There may be others to.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same?

[Yohan Pereira]

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On Monday 13 Jun 2011 13:15:39 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> But different distfiles will have different names, right?

yea.

i use my amd64 distfiles in my x86 chroot using the portage variable 
PORTAGE_RO_DISTDIRS. Any distfiles that are not present/incompaitable are 
downloaded by the chroot's portage.
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- Yohan Pereira

"A man can do as he will, but not will as he will" - Schopenhauer

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[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 06/13/2011 08:29 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Please forgive my (probably) stupid question:
>
> Are the distfiles in /usr/portage/distfiles identical for both amd64
> and x86 Gentoo?

Usually.  But an ebuild can specify a different distfile for x86 but use 
the same name.  This isn't dangerous though, since the checksum will 
catch it.  That means you can use the same distfiles directory for both, 
and if you come across an ebuild that does weird stuff, portage will 
bark and re-download the correct distfile.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:42:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> That means you can use the same distfiles directory for both, 
> and if you come across an ebuild that does weird stuff, portage will 
> bark and re-download the correct distfile.

That's true, although I have a common $DISTDIR shared among various
architectures and can't ever recall this actually happening.


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Neil Bothwick

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