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