Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost

[Michał Górny]

On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 19:51 +0100, Lars Wendler wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:57:48 +0200 Andreas K. Hüttel wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm announcing a new project here - "binhost"
> >
> > "The Gentoo Binhost project aims to provide readily installable,
> > precompiled packages for a subset of configurations, via central
> > binary package hosting. Currently we are still in the conceptual
> > planning stage. "
> >
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Binhost
> >
> > If you're interested in helping out, feel free to add yourself on the
> > wiki page.
> >
> > Note that I see actually *building* the packages not as the central
> > point of the project (that could be e.g. a side effect of a
> > tinderbox). I'm more concerned about
> > * what configurations should we use
> > * what portage features are still needed or need improvements (e.g.
> > binpkg signing and verification)
> > * how should hosting look like
> > * and how we can test this on a limited scale before it goes "into
> > production"
> > * ...
> >
> > Comments, ideas, flamebaits? :D
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andreas
> >
>
> It would be great to improve portage speed with handling binpkgs. I
> already have my own binhost for a couple of Gentoo systems and even
> though these systems don't have to compile anything themselves,
> installing ~100 to ~200 binpkgs takes way more than an hour of
> installation time. Arch Linux' pacman only takes a fraction of this
> time for the very same task.
> I know that I compare apples with pears here but even reducing the
> current portage time by 50% would be a huge improvement.

Is that really a problem?  For me, Portage takes about an hour just to
do the dependency processing these days.  In fact, building from sources
is now faster than dependency calculations.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny