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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Building custom package for multi-arch/system
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:23:57
Message-Id: 4B64A385.8040600@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Building custom package for multi-arch/system by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On 01/30/2010 10:11 AM, Duncan wrote:
2 > Thanks. I knew the PORTAGE_BINHOST and --config-root bits, but hadn't
3 > thought about the tree not being needed, save for the profiles. I
4 > recently setup a netbook based on a Gentoo image compiled elsewhere, and
5 > while it's now functional, I'm still tweaking stuff, including the portage
6 > arrangement. That I don't need the entire gentoo tree for emerging
7 > binpkgs is thus quite interesting new information at this point. =:^)
8 >
9 > Does that happen to be documented anywhere? I'd not seen it before.
10
11 No, not really. The binhost support was updated in portage-2.1.6,
12 with support for the $PKGDIR/Packages file. Since then it's a lot
13 more appealing.
14 --
15 Thanks,
16 Zac