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Il giorno mer 10 feb 2021 alle ore 19:51 Lars Wendler < |
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polynomial-c@g.o> ha scritto: |
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> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:57:48 +0200 Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: |
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> >Hi all, |
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> > |
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> >I'm announcing a new project here - "binhost" |
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> > |
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> >"The Gentoo Binhost project aims to provide readily installable, |
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> >precompiled packages for a subset of configurations, via central |
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> >binary package hosting. Currently we are still in the conceptual |
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> >planning stage. " |
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> > |
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> >https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Binhost |
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> > |
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> >If you're interested in helping out, feel free to add yourself on the |
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> >wiki page. |
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> > |
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> >Note that I see actually *building* the packages not as the central |
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> >point of the project (that could be e.g. a side effect of a |
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> >tinderbox). I'm more concerned about |
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> >* what configurations should we use |
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> >* what portage features are still needed or need improvements (e.g. |
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> >binpkg signing and verification) |
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> >* how should hosting look like |
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> >* and how we can test this on a limited scale before it goes "into |
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> >production" |
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> >* ... |
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> > |
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> >Comments, ideas, flamebaits? :D |
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> >Cheers, |
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> >Andreas |
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> > |
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> It would be great to improve portage speed with handling binpkgs. I |
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> already have my own binhost for a couple of Gentoo systems and even |
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> though these systems don't have to compile anything themselves, |
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> installing ~100 to ~200 binpkgs takes way more than an hour of |
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> installation time. Arch Linux' pacman only takes a fraction of this |
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> time for the very same task. |
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> I know that I compare apples with pears here but even reducing the |
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> current portage time by 50% would be a huge improvement. |
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> |
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> Agreed, nowadays I do use Gentoo in two ways: |
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- From binpkgs usually for baremetal, server or desktop |
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- condensing part of the system in a squashfs image, usually for containers |
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Binpkg performance is acceptable albeit not blazing fast for machines with |
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500-800 packages (usually server) while for desktops which easily have 2000 |
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packages the time to update can be hours. |
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While we are here the squashfs images way to distribute is wonderful and |
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handy, except that it's read-only and managing /etc is more challenging |
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without the commodity of etc-update/dispatch-conf, would be nicer to have a |
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comparable tool to be used for this. |
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Suggestions about the implementation well accepted |
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Cheers, |
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Francesco (vivo) Riosa |
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