Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:29:09 BST Eli Schwartz wrote: [Big snip] Never mind. I've solved the problem by removing sci-misc/boinc and its 40-odd dependencies. The machine was only barely capable of running it anyway. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-16 Thread Eli Schwartz
On April 16, 2024 10:44:55 AM EDT, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >This is what I get after this morning's update: > > >Dependency resolution took 16.03 s (backtrack: 0/20). > >[ebuild N ] gui-libs/gtk-4.12.5:4::gentoo USE="X cups gstreamer >introspection wayland (-aqua) -broadway

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
(Rearranged in chronological order...) On Tuesday, 16 April 2024 15:08:33 BST Waldo Lemmer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 15:43 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 15 April 2024 12:19:02 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > > I'm still mystified by these Gentoo binary packages. I assume that

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-16 Thread Waldo Lemmer
If you add --ask --verbose, Portage should tell you why it's falling back to the source package. Does your emerge command include --getbinpkg, or -g? On Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 15:43 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 15 April 2024 12:19:02 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > [Big snip] >

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-16 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 at 15:43, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm still mystified by these Gentoo binary packages. I assume that they're > generated using the default USE flags in the profile version (whence the need > to > specify it in gentoobinhost.conf). > > So why is portage not fetching webkit-gtk

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 15 April 2024 12:19:02 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, [Big snip] I'm still mystified by these Gentoo binary packages. I assume that they're generated using the default USE flags in the profile version (whence the need to specify it in gentoobinhost.conf). So why is portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-15 Thread Waldo Lemmer
Hi Peter, "Profile version" is the correct term here. I don't have the privileges required to edit the Handbook, but as soon as I have the time, I will propose a fix and make sure it gets applied. Thanks for getting back to me. Regards, Waldo On Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 16:04 Peter Humphrey wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 15 April 2024 13:24:59 BST Waldo Lemmer wrote: > I'd like to understand your confusion. Where did you get 27 from? >From ref 1, viz: "The architecture and profile targets within the sync-uri value do matter and should align to the respective computer architecture (amd64 in this

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-15 Thread Waldo Lemmer
Hi Peter, I'd like to understand your confusion. Where did you get 27 from? Cheers, Waldo On Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 13:25 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 15 April 2024 12:19:02 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I've decided to follow the instructions in [1] on one of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 15 April 2024 12:19:02 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've decided to follow the instructions in [1] on one of my machines, which > runs too hot for my comfort on long emerges, but I need some advice, please: > where the wiki gives this [2], I'm setting 'amd64' as the and