Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost

[Zac Medico]

On 2/11/21 1:17 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> 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.

The ratio of these times is dependent on the complexity of the
dependencies involved, and so is the answer to your question.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac