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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage has 0 debugging support for binary emerges
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 16:25:14
Message-Id: df6d74b7-241c-775d-2124-cef13808f79c@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage has 0 debugging support for binary emerges by n952162
1 On 9/6/21 3:48 PM, n952162 wrote:
2 > On 4/3/21 10:03 PM, n952162 wrote:
3 >> I find no clue why the binary packages on my server aren't being picked
4 >> up.  The --debug option  (and --verbose, naturally) has no additional
5 >> information.  Running the --getbinpkgonly stops immediately, saying 0
6 >> packages are selected.
7 >>
8 >> I found one problem: on my server, my apache log file had a 302 fetch
9 >> error for /var/cache/binpkgs/Packages.  I touched it a few hours into
10 >> the future and started getting a 200 for it.  But still no emerge would
11 >> fetch a binary (even though there ARE good candidates).  On a guess, I
12 >> touched all the files in binpkgs an hour into the future, but that
13 >> didn't help.
14 >>
15 >> Binary updates are VERY useful for virtual machines.
16 >>
17 >>
18 >
19 > Unfortunately, there hasn't really been a resolution on this issue.
20 >
21 > I think it's reasonable that if portage accesses a package on a binary
22 > server and decides it's not eligible, it should report the reason for
23 > rejecting it.
24 >
25 > Is it possible to make requests for improvements in gentoo?
26 >
27 >
28
29 In the current case, llvm-common came across as binary, thunderbird and
30 firefox are also listed as a *binary* update, but llvm is an *ebuild*. 
31 Neither host (binary server) nor the client (updating system) have any
32 USE flags defined for llvm.  I know of no way to figure out what went wrong.

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