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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] binary server in both directions?
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:50:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2574360.mvXUDI8C0e@peak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6fe5eafc-f3c2-9709-e7c9-2f95985f7ac7@web.de>

On Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:29:45 GMT n952162 wrote:
> On 1/6/21 4:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:46:49 +0100, n952162 wrote:
> >> I set up a binary server on one of my real machines to service a vbox
> >> hosted on it.  It seems to work okay, but both firefox and thunderbird
> >> are re-emerging ... I suspect that they changed between when I did a
> >> --sync on the host and a --sync on the client.
> >> 
> >> I can't see any problem with configuring the machines in the other
> >> direction, as well, so I can "upload" the compiled firefox and
> >> thunderbird to the host.
> > 
> > Set FEATURES="buildpkg" on both machines and set up a common $PKGDIR (I
> > use NFS for this). Then emerge with the --se-pkg option and if a suitable
> > package has already been build, it will be used, saving compiling again.
> 
> --se-pkg?   I don't fined that in emerge(1).

Try --use-pkg, or -k for short

> Interestingly, startpage.com took me to
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide for that option, but
> that page doesn't list that option  ;-)


-- 
Regards,
Peter.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-06 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-06 15:46 [gentoo-user] binary server in both directions? n952162
2021-01-06 15:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-01-06 16:29   ` n952162
2021-01-06 16:50     ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2021-01-06 17:06       ` n952162

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