Re: [gentoo-dev] Experimental binary package hosting

[Torokhov Sergey]

Thanks! I never used an external binhost repo so mislead myself.

Now I see that it's like a remote analogue of "/usr/portage/packages" 
and tarballs from remote binhost are fetched on demand into "local binhost" 
( /usr/portage/packages/<category> ) before installation with replacing early presented tarballs.


> binhost.conf should be in binrepos.conf instead of repos.conf. See also:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide#Pulling_packages_from_a_binary_package_host


> A binhost is different from an ebuild repository, it is just a
> collection of .xpak files so there is no git sync involved.