Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost

[Marco Scardovi]

Hi there,

Well, actually you could take a look on GRP project as, if I understand,
was similar to what you would like to do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux#Gentoo_Reference_Platform

Unfortunately this project was closed on 2011, so lots of things are
changed, but could be a good start


Il Sab 13 Mar 2021, 09:44 Torokhov Sergey <torokhov-s-a@××××××.ru> ha
scritto:

> Maybe the expirience of Calculate Linux will be usefull. It's Gentoo based
> distributive that use portage/emerge and have huge set of prebuild packages
> in *.xpack format.
>
> https://wiki.calculate-linux.org/calculate_vs_gentoo
>
> 10.02.2021, 20:58, "Andreas K. Hüttel" <dilfridge@g.o>:
>
> 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
>
> --
> Andreas K. Hüttel
> dilfridge@g.o
> Gentoo Linux developer
> (council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
>
>