On 2/10/21 6:57 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 > * what portage features are still needed or need improvements (e.g. binpkg > signing and verification) > * how should hosting look like > * and how we can test this on a limited scale before it goes "into production" > * ... > > Comments, ideas, flamebaits? :D
To me, rather than build time, the time consuming challenge is to review the content of make.conf to get the most out of my (usually quite powerful) hardware, when there are updates to Gentoo or even the hardware. For GSoC 2018 I have drawn the idea of some 'Social Linux Distribution Network', as in sharing Gentoo config like in some social network, with backing by some binhost infrastructure to be an optional second step: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2018/Ideas#Social_Linux_Distribution_Network While I unlikely will have enough time to really help out here, I'm a potential user of binhost with a personal focus on most flexible connectivity while using Xfce. My 2 ct, /haubi/
