On 2/10/21 12:57 PM, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote:
Hi all, I'm announcing a new project here - "binhost" "The Gentoo Binhost project aims to provide readily installable, precompiled packages for a subset of configurations, via central binary package hosting. Currently we are still in the conceptual planning stage. " https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Binhost If you're interested in helping out, feel free to add yourself on the wiki page. Note that I see actually *building* the packages not as the central point of the project (that could be e.g. a side effect of a tinderbox). I'm more concerned about * what configurations should we use
maybe to start with, desktop profiles (gnome/qt/none + systemd/openrc) are a good idea, these are the people who would benefit most. This may not be enough, most people also enable extra flags polkit/elogind/ttf/otf/wayland/pulseaudio We can start with a default and gather feedback as to what new flags should be enabled.
* what portage features are still needed or need improvements (e.g. binpkg signing and verification)
somehow checking valid CFLAG/etc. compatibility, not sure how. Some packages fail when built with differing flags
* how should hosting look like
Something like the list of profiles in eselect profile (replace https by protocol of choice): https://binpkg.gentoo.org/amd64/17.1/desktop/ https://binpkg.gentoo.org/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/ could potentially also be mirrored on rsync mirrors. Cheers, Aisha
* and how we can test this on a limited scale before it goes "into production" * ... Comments, ideas, flamebaits? :D Cheers, Andreas
