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On Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:29:45 GMT n952162 wrote: |
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> On 1/6/21 4:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:46:49 +0100, n952162 wrote: |
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> >> I set up a binary server on one of my real machines to service a vbox |
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> >> hosted on it. It seems to work okay, but both firefox and thunderbird |
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> >> are re-emerging ... I suspect that they changed between when I did a |
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> >> --sync on the host and a --sync on the client. |
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> >> I can't see any problem with configuring the machines in the other |
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> >> direction, as well, so I can "upload" the compiled firefox and |
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> >> thunderbird to the host. |
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> > Set FEATURES="buildpkg" on both machines and set up a common $PKGDIR (I |
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> > use NFS for this). Then emerge with the --se-pkg option and if a suitable |
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> > package has already been build, it will be used, saving compiling again. |
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> --se-pkg? I don't fined that in emerge(1). |
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Try --use-pkg, or -k for short |
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> Interestingly, startpage.com took me to |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide for that option, but |
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> that page doesn't list that option ;-) |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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