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?

In the current case, llvm-common came across as binary, thunderbird and firefox are also listed as a binary update, but llvm is an ebuild.  Neither host (binary server) nor the client (updating system) have any USE flags defined for llvm.  I know of no way to figure out what went wrong.