[gentoo-dev] Re: Building custom package for multi-arch/system

[Duncan]

Zac Medico posted on Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:59:27 -0800 as excerpted:

> The clients need sys-apps/portage installed, but not the whole portage
> tree (although the profiles directory can be useful for the profile and
> package moves). The clients should set PORTAGE_BINHOST in make.conf, so
> that binary packages are automatically downloaded with the emerge -g
> option.

Thanks.  I knew the PORTAGE_BINHOST and --config-root bits, but hadn't 
thought about the tree not being needed, save for the profiles.  I 
recently setup a netbook based on a Gentoo image compiled elsewhere, and 
while it's now functional, I'm still tweaking stuff, including the portage 
arrangement.   That I don't need the entire gentoo tree for emerging 
binpkgs is thus quite interesting new information at this point. =:^)

Does that happen to be documented anywhere?  I'd not seen it before.

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