How to exclude packages from binary built based on suffix?

nagmat84 · Apprentice Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 293

I would like to avoid building binary packages for packages which end with "-meta" and "-bin" on my build server. To this end, I followed the guide Gentoo Wiki: Vinary Package Guide - Excluding creation of Some Packages. My current "EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=" contains

ajgringo619 · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2022 Posts: 36

I went through this when first deciding to use binary packages. Since I've got around 10 VMs now, I've found that excluding pre-built binaries just doesn't give me much of a benefit. In fact, it may actually help with some larger packages (like browsers, kernels, or Rust). With the binaries stored on an NFS server, as opposed to the internet, I find that these packages install much faster. And since disk space is so cheap, that's not much of a factor anymore, either.

Can you describe your current environment in more detail?

nagmat84 · Apprentice Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 293

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 22877

From a few minutes looking at the Portage source, I think the string you give is handled by portage.dep.Atom with allow_wildcard=True. This uses _get_atom_wildcard_re to decompose your input into pieces. Perhaps reviewing this regular expression will help with your question.

Zucca · Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 12:47 pm Post subject:

After quickly glancing trough some manpages about ATOMs, I think you may have encountered a bug.
Because I don't see why would */*-bin match anything other than package names ending with -bin.

But after running quick tests on one of my boxes, I did not encounter this problem.

Banana · Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 9:49 pm Post subject:

@nagmat84

Can you please show us the output of emerge --info?

Maybe your syntax, which you have posted in the first post, is kind of wrong

There is a difference between yours:

Zucca · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 12:29 am Post subject:

I believe OP escaped double quotes because those parts were copied from EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS from make.conf.
And if the whole value of EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS is enclosed by double quotes, then the inner double quotes need to be escaped.
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Banana · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 10:17 am Post subject:

Zucca · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 12:38 pm Post subject:

Yes.
That being said, I'd first change all the escaped double quotes to single quotes... just in case.
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nagmat84 · Apprentice Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 293

I assume we can consider this solved and a "false alarm". I do not know what I changed this time. Maybe it was an encoding error in my make.conf or something similar. After I edited make.conf, cut the entire line and pasted it into the file again, it magically worked.