Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Joby Walker <zorloc@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Binary 'mirror' server?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:11:02
Message-Id: 40EC3CA9.3030308@imperium.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Binary 'mirror' server? by Kerin Millar
1 Kerin Millar wrote:
2
3 >>On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:14:42AM -0700 or thereabouts, Jason Qualkenbush
4 >>wrote:
5 >>
6 >>>Is there a document on this somewhere?
7 >>
8 >>You're talking about PORTAGE_BINHOST. man make.conf for more info.
9 >
10 > I would also suggest setting at least FEATURES="sandbox buildpkg" on the
11 > package "server" for convenience. Having said that one might not always
12 > wish to build binary packages for certain ebuilds (emerge --buildpkg
13 > gentoo-dev-sources anyone?).
14
15 Making a package of the kernel sources packages is just fine. It
16 doesn't build a distributable kernel but since the sources are already
17 downloaded and patched it makes it very easy and bandwidth friendly way
18 to distribute the kernel sources.
19
20 jbw

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[gentoo-server] kernel binary package [it was: Binary 'mirror' server?] Andrea Ferraris <andrea_ferraris@××××××.it>