Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

[Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org>]

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On 2/11/25 12:06 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> If I'm reading that right, anyone who has either hardware acceleration or en-
> GB localisation set has to compile it himself. I can switch off the hwaccel but 
> I'm not willing to use the US variant of English.


Ok yeah that is a nasty problem unfortunately. Maybe this should use the
same split design that libreoffice does, where libreoffice depends on
libreoffice-l10n and the latter can be freely rebuilt and only installs
some small static files.

Did you try submitting a bug report?


>> You haven't actually provided details about why you think there's a
>> problem though. You have said:
>>
>> - if there are no packages available for your configuration, you have
>>   "built from source in the traditional way", which emerge already does
>>   *automatically* unless you explicitly tell it not to. Should I be
>>   concluding from here that you first tried the *only variant, then when
>>   that failed you disabled fetching binary packages altogether in a fit
>>   of frustration?
> 
> The problem seems to be that portage knows when a requested prebuilt package 
> exists at gentoo.org, but over here the local mirrors take time to catch up. 
> Perhaps I'm just causing trouble by trying to work around that latency myself. 
> I've just tried using distfiles.gentoo.org instead, and it looks promising.


The index of packages comes from the same website as the package files
themselves, so in theory they should always be consistent with each
other. https://bugs.gentoo.org/936288 may be relevant.

If you aren't dealing with a broken mirror (bytemark was outright
dropping some directories via rsync!) then it's just a matter of time.
The binhost starts up at around 5am each day, runs for a bit, and
publishes all packages for the day. I usually sync around noon. More
details at

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart#I_used_to_have_a_binary_package_but_not_anymore.2C_what_happened.3F



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Eli Schwartz

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