Good\Trusted BINHOST mirror? (x86)

Phk

Hi there!

I think the topic says everything.
Anyone know a good mirror to enable the use of "emerge -gK package" ??

thanks in advance,
Phk
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject:

Phk,

For what flavour of x86 ?
You really don't want to try to run Athlon-XP code on a P3.
For what packages with what USE= flags ?

I suspect the answer is 'probably not' because there are just too many options.
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Phk · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 3:03 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject:

Phk,

Not for P4 but I have some stuff for K6-2, P3 and Athlon-XP which I can put on the web.

You said laptops, meaning more than one. Have a look at discc, or consider making your own binhost by adding buildpkg to features on your desktop install. It need to be P4 or compatible though.
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Phk · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject:

Yes, and that's the problem....

I have 2 AthlonXP desktops, 1 AMD X2 Desktop, 1 P4 Laptop.

For the Athlons and the DualCore, i really don't need binary packages

But for the P4 Laptop and a lot of centrino laptops i help installing gentoo, it really would be nice to have some binary packages collection.

I'm a bit confused... What are the binary packages included on the liveCD?

thanks 'gain!
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Monkeh · Veteran Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 1656 Location: England

Use distcc. The X2 and Athlon XPs can happily (unless the X2 is 64-bit.. I think) compile stuff for the laptop.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:54 pm Post subject:

Phk,

Investigate distcc and cross compiling. Any box (Sun, VAX, ARM, x86, etc) can campile code targeted for a P4.
It may not be able to run it but it doesn't need to. Use the P4 as the controlling host, farm the compiles out to be cross compiled on the others.
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Sipos · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject: BINHOST mirrors

I would like to use binaries for many packages. I installed using the graphical installer and neither make.conf or make.conf.example have any mirrors listed in BINHOST. Can someone let me know how I can find mirrors to use for binary packages and if there is a tool like mirrorselect to select the fastest ones.

(I have a prescott laptop)

nixnut · Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject:

merged above post here.
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Phk · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject:

Come on guys, there must be some use for the "K" option in emerge!!!

I know this distro's theory is based on 100% system-built OS, but, there are many times where an
" emerge -K gnome "
would really come in handy....

NO ONE knows a good bin mirror?? :'(

:cry:

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ux9i · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 6

According to this:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap4_sect2

(Excerpt: "Although Gentoo doesn't provide one, you can create a central repository where you store prebuilt packages.")

Even though Gentoo doesn't provide one, I wonder if anyone else does. All my searching for one so far has been in vain. I checked several Gentoo download mirrors and these seem to all be just source. It would need to be a free mirror.

The machine this is for is a 500 MHz Pentium III, my optimization is "-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe", the use flags are -X and minus lots of other graphical, video, or image support because it's just a web and database server and not a desktop.

That means my particular permutation of CFLAGS and USE is likely to NOT find an exact match with a prebuilt binary package repository. Although it's nice to have these optimizations, I was thinking of just using x86 prebuilt packages to get started and build the optimized ones in the background.

[If there isn't one, my next question is, what kind of bandwidth would I be facing should I do some sort of public duty and put my Pentium III optimized copies out there for everyone?]

Zepp · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:53 pm Post subject:

There are none that I know of. And if one was to maintain one of any decent size they would never be able to support all cflags and use combinations so they would just have to go with some defaults like all binary distributions do.

Old_dude · n00b Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 6

There do happen to be a few, depending on your arch. Go on over to the Gentoo Wiki for this info.
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nixnut · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject:

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