[gentoo-user] Using binary packages

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

The new ability to pull packages from Gentoo servers is useful [1]. It does
require something close to neutral USE flags, though, as well as -march and -
mtune. My little Celeron box only took 19 minutes (!) to fetch and install
gcc, not the 23 hours it took before.

I'd like to be able to tell portage to ignore the Gentoo packages in certain
instances - something like half those 19 minutes were spent in checking the
local indexes against the server's. And if I know I have a good local package,
I don't want to have to go and make coffee or something while it goes through
that checking process before ignoring the upstream packages.

At the moment, the only way I can see to change portage's behaviour like that
is to keep editing FEATURES in make.conf.

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Regards,
Peter.

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:12:05 GMT I wrote:

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> At the moment, the only way I can see to change portage's behaviour like
> that is to keep editing FEATURES in make.conf.

It's obvious, really: just pass
FEATURES="-getbinpkg -binpkg-request-signature"
to the emerge command. Or perhaps just the -getbinpkg will do; I haven't tried
it.

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Regards,
Peter.