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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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>I'm announcing a new project here - "binhost" |
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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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>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Binhost |
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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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>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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>Comments, ideas, flamebaits? :D |
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>Cheers, |
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>Andreas |
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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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Cheers |
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Lars Wendler |
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Gentoo package maintainer |
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