Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge and binary packages
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:27:21
Message-Id: 20180630222703.1af3a573@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Emerge and binary packages by Daniel Frey
1 On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 10:50:47 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote:
2
3 > For many, many years I've been using binpkg to help ease the compile
4 > pain on my Intel NUC Celeron-based frontends. I use distcc on one to
5 > compile all my packages and export /usr/portage/packages via nfs.
6 >
7 > I am wondering if it's possible to get emerge to mount
8 > /usr/portage/packages before actually emerging anything. I've been
9 > mounting that directory manually but once in a while I forget
10 > to.
11
12 Something like this in /etc/portage/env/media-tv/mythtv
13
14 pre_pkg_setup {
15 mount whatever wherever
16 }
17
18 may do what you want. I haven't tested it but a similar approach works
19 with post install functions for me.
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22 --
23 Neil Bothwick
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25 If you use envelopes, why not encryption ?