Eli, On Wednesday, 2025-12-10 11:57:23 -0500, you wrote:
> On 12/10/25 10:16 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > ... > > Currently the binhost is offering "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.12.58" > > and installing it from there again took 14 minutes while building it > > from source took 2 minutes as usual. > > ... > ... > > Regarding providing binpkgs of sys-kernel/*, we don't intentionally > build them, but they are created as a side effect of building other > packages that also have rdepend on e.g. a kernel module. Since the > binhost cycles through "random" packages for extra coverage, packages > can appear and disappear if not part of the base collection (kde, gnome, > and a selection of popular apps). Thanks for pointing this out. So in the future my package update script will now always run "emerge" with "--usepkg-exclude='sys-kernel/gentoo- sources ...'. > Relevant: > > https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/1527 -- configure binhost to > prefer binaries or exclude them on a per package basis. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/542480 -- teach build servers to not produce > binpkgs for packages where it's worse than compiling from source. And thank you for these two pointers. Interesting reading :-) Sincerely, Rainer
