Binary hosts online

psycho · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 542 Location: New Zealand

It's great to see that the convenience of a complete (for amd64 stable) binary distribution is available to Gentoo users now. Should make the resurrection of ancient Gentoo boxes much quicker and easier.

Q-collective · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 2076

If those ancient boxes support AMD64 :wink:

But yeah, I heard this was in the pipe line for a long time now, but was surprised by the sudden announcement in my rss reader.

Easy setup, looks completely transparent so far, or maybe I haven't pulled in any binaries yet. Are updates transparently going to be replaced with binaries now when --getbinpkg is enabled? That's how I understood it to go.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2023 11:12 am Post subject:

Q-collective,

Yes, if USE flags are compatible. If not, portage will want to build as normal.
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eeckwrk99 · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2023 2:36 pm Post subject:

I own a Compaq 6710b (Core 2 Duo T7300 @2.0 GHz / 4GB of RAM). I have always been reluctant to install Gentoo on it because compile times would be very long, so I went with Arch Linux instead.
This is a backup machine I never really use unless I'm traveling or have a serious issue with my main one. I wouldn't mind having to wait for packages to compile as I wouldn't be using the system during that time, but it wouldn't be worth the CPU usage and electricity consumption in my opinion. I was also not too keen on learning how to set up a binhost.

Gentoo now offering official binary packages, I might reconsider that.

doalwa · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:20 am Post subject:

Stumbled upon this news, as well.

This is great news for me. I have multiple Gentoo installations at home, one is running on a rather ancient Thinkpad X200. World updates are, obviously, a pain.

Can't wait to try it on this machine later on...hopefully the USE flags are compatible :!:

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Q-collective · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 2076

Please note when you setup /etc/portage/binrepos.conf/gentoobinhost.conf that you specify a full path to the mirror of your choosing. So:

1. Go to https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/ and select any mirror you want to use.
2. Go to the directory /releases/amd64/binpackages/17.1/x86-64/ (if you're on AMD64)

This is the url you'll need to enter.

It tripped me up, so I thought I'd share!

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NichtDerHans · Apprentice Joined: 27 Jan 2023 Posts: 177

I am currently testing this. The day before yesterday there were 125 updates, of which about 120 were binary packages. Today there are about 20 updates and no binary packages.

Will the binary packages be built later at intervals? If so, what are the intervals?

eschwartz · Developer Joined: 29 Oct 2023 Posts: 219

Approximately once a day for amd64, so unless you have good timing you can easily end up inside the window when new packages have been pushed to the rsync repos but not built yet. Waiting a bit after you sync but before you update may help.