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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Experimental binary package hosting
From:       Marc Schiffbauer <mschiff () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2021-09-24 8:25:45
Message-ID: 20210924082545.6juj6wbrn3qirmnt () schiffbauer ! net
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* Matt Turner schrieb am 23.09.21 um 09:28 Uhr:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 7:12 AM Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Vadim,
> >
> > > Finally it happened!
> > > I already planned to try to ask infra/council about sponsoring few
> > > servers for build farm for "official gentoo binhosts" when I had
> > > enough time, but fortunately, you've already did that.
> > > It's very good news.
> >
> > Thanks! Nice to see that this is appreciated :)
> >
> > So far I'm only using "spare time" on the machine that builds the
> > releng stages (amd64, x86, m68k, riscv). So no need for a big server
> > farm.
> >
> > > Btw, do you need any help with that?
> > > I'd be very happy to help with that project.
> >
> > Sure! Feel free to add yourself to the Project:Binhost wiki page. I'll
> > ask for an alias and a channel soon.
> >
> > The most useful steps now are only half related to actual building. I
> > barely know any python and am not very familiar with portage
> > internals... this is what in my opinion we'd need next:
> >
> > 1) a tool to manage and manipulate a binpkg/ directory tree
> > The main functions that I see needed are
> > * delete packages/versions that are not in the gentoo repository
> > anymore (xpak and in index file), maybe with some grace time
> > * merge xpak files built elsewhere into the directory (also in the
> > index file)
> 
> eclean packages from gentoolkit does this exactly.

plus 'emaint binhost' for rebuilding the index after adding packages 
manually :)

-Marc

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