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From: "Wolfgang E. Sanyer" <wolfgangesanyer@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:58:31
Message-Id: CACwN4LxFrs8FjGmrdKpXPEE=Y1bCpgU1ycd_zt4+A5hohaG3iA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: binhost by Marco Scardovi
1 I'm unable to add myself to the wiki, as i am not a real dev (yet!) but i
2 am definitely interested in being a part of this team and contributing to
3 the discussions.
4
5 El sáb., 13 de marzo de 2021 5:48 a. m., Marco Scardovi <marco@××××××××.com>
6 escribió:
7
8 > Hi there,
9 >
10 > Well, actually you could take a look on GRP project as, if I understand,
11 > was similar to what you would like to do:
12 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux#Gentoo_Reference_Platform
13 >
14 > Unfortunately this project was closed on 2011, so lots of things are
15 > changed, but could be a good start
16 >
17 >
18 > Il Sab 13 Mar 2021, 09:44 Torokhov Sergey <torokhov-s-a@××××××.ru> ha
19 > scritto:
20 >
21 >> Maybe the expirience of Calculate Linux will be usefull. It's Gentoo
22 >> based distributive that use portage/emerge and have huge set of prebuild
23 >> packages in *.xpack format.
24 >>
25 >> https://wiki.calculate-linux.org/calculate_vs_gentoo
26 >>
27 >> 10.02.2021, 20:58, "Andreas K. Hüttel" <dilfridge@g.o>:
28 >>
29 >> Hi all,
30 >>
31 >> I'm announcing a new project here - "binhost"
32 >>
33 >> "The Gentoo Binhost project aims to provide readily installable,
34 >> precompiled
35 >> packages for a subset of configurations, via central binary package
36 >> hosting.
37 >> Currently we are still in the conceptual planning stage. "
38 >>
39 >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Binhost
40 >>
41 >> If you're interested in helping out, feel free to add yourself on the
42 >> wiki
43 >> page.
44 >>
45 >> Note that I see actually *building* the packages not as the central point
46 >> of
47 >> the project (that could be e.g. a side effect of a tinderbox). I'm more
48 >> concerned about
49 >> * what configurations should we use
50 >> * what portage features are still needed or need improvements (e.g.
51 >> binpkg
52 >> signing and verification)
53 >> * how should hosting look like
54 >> * and how we can test this on a limited scale before it goes "into
55 >> production"
56 >> * ...
57 >>
58 >> Comments, ideas, flamebaits? :D
59 >>
60 >> Cheers,
61 >> Andreas
62 >>
63 >> --
64 >> Andreas K. Hüttel
65 >> dilfridge@g.o
66 >> Gentoo Linux developer
67 >> (council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
68 >>
69 >>