Re: [gentoo-dev] PORTAGE_BINHOST Madness

2007-01-06 Thread Alec Warner
Gustavo Felisberto wrote: My main issue is with size. Right now portage has to pull ALL the packages in the PORTAGE_BINHOST to create the dep tree. Is there a way for me to say: emerge -u --use-bynary-packages-if-possible system and portage will build the dep tree based on the local portage

[gentoo-dev] PORTAGE_BINHOST Madness

2007-01-04 Thread Gustavo Felisberto
According to man portage: --getbinpkg (-g) Using the server and location defined in PORTAGE_BINHOST (see make.conf(5)), portage will download the information from each binary package found and it will use that information to help build the dependency

Re: [gentoo-dev] PORTAGE_BINHOST Madness

2007-01-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 04 January 2007 20:33, Gustavo Felisberto wrote: Ok, so what is diference? probably the samething as between -k and -K -mike pgp1GupdWafBk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] PORTAGE_BINHOST Madness

2007-01-04 Thread Alec Warner
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 04 January 2007 20:33, Gustavo Felisberto wrote: Ok, so what is diference? probably the samething as between -k and -K -mike A more verbose answer: -k says use binary packages if possible, otherwise use ebuilds -K says use only binary packages, fail if you