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 30EF31382C5 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1F82E0934; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7D3D6E0924 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1kxC1M-00043x-TX for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:50:52 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] binary server in both directions? Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:50:52 +0000 Message-ID: <2574360.mvXUDI8C0e@peak> In-Reply-To: <6fe5eafc-f3c2-9709-e7c9-2f95985f7ac7@web.de> References: <1decace5-a5c9-908c-a35b-ebf69f5ecae2@web.de> <20210106155310.5b608f32@digimed.co.uk> <6fe5eafc-f3c2-9709-e7c9-2f95985f7ac7@web.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01b-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: aaaf87a5-9d68-4dae-b764-884d81fa7c0d X-Archives-Hash: 4d6d9b3af4a7f3eff1becc3112696478 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.