From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:36:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12474604.O9o76ZdvQC@cube> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1642da93-fb0e-4842-a4b1-97f720cfd370@kotiaho.net>
On Monday, 15 July 2024 10:54:37 BST J. Aho wrote:
> The main issue is that you aren't syncing portage towards the bin
> server, which makes things out of sync and those you will be building a
> lot of the packages instead of fetching the binary files when they are
> built. One way to come around this issue is that when you sync your
> portage, wait a day before you check what files to update, this way the
> binary packages should have been built, but sure it's a pita.
You're right. I had set the sync-uri to mirror.bytemark.co.uk, which I got
from the handbook. but I still had GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://
www.mirrorservice.org/sites/distfiles.gentoo.org/" from an older installation.
I've now set the mirror to bytemark; let's see if that helps.
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Peter.
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2024-07-15 9:54 ` [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages J. Aho
2024-07-15 12:36 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2024-07-16 8:50 ` Michael
2024-07-16 10:38 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-07-16 14:50 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-07-13 12:42 Peter Humphrey
2024-07-13 13:18 ` Arve Barsnes
2024-07-13 14:49 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-07-14 0:18 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-07-14 8:44 ` netfab
2024-07-14 6:05 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-07-14 7:48 ` Dale
2024-07-14 12:04 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-07-14 12:22 ` Wols Lists
2024-07-14 13:15 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-07-14 14:03 ` Wol
2024-07-15 6:22 ` Dale
2024-07-15 7:15 ` Wols Lists
2024-07-15 8:36 ` Dale
2024-07-14 15:50 ` Eli Schwartz
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