Re: [gentoo-user] portage has 0 debugging support for binary emerges

[n952162 <n952162@web.de>]

On 4/3/21 10:03 PM, n952162 wrote:
> I find no clue why the binary packages on my server aren't being picked
> up.  The --debug option  (and --verbose, naturally) has no additional
> information.  Running the --getbinpkgonly stops immediately, saying 0
> packages are selected.
>
> I found one problem: on my server, my apache log file had a 302 fetch
> error for /var/cache/binpkgs/Packages.  I touched it a few hours into
> the future and started getting a 200 for it.  But still no emerge would
> fetch a binary (even though there ARE good candidates).  On a guess, I
> touched all the files in binpkgs an hour into the future, but that
> didn't help.
>
> Binary updates are VERY useful for virtual machines.
>
>

Unfortunately, there hasn't really been a resolution on this issue.

I think it's reasonable that if portage accesses a package on a binary
server and decides it's not eligible, it should report the reason for
rejecting it.

Is it possible to make requests for improvements in gentoo?