Bug 751595

Summary:	www-client/firefox bindist flag is gone
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nick Kossifidis 2020-10-28 15:01:31 UTC

www-client/firefox after the 81.0 and 78.3 ebuilds merged on 1st of October don't contain the bindist use flag. This breaks binary repositories where people created custom firefox builds for multiple hosts on their organization. We are now forced to compile firefox on every host.

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2020-10-28 15:09:54 UTC

I think you misunderstood; Firefox is now binary redistributable without the flag.

The flag only exists where it’s not binary reproducible by default.

Comment 2 Nick Kossifidis 2020-10-28 17:08:01 UTC

Then why does it recompile on all my hosts instead of being fetched from binhost ?

Comment 3 Nick Kossifidis 2020-10-28 17:18:44 UTC

Anyway thanks for the update and the quick response, if it's not the bindist flag it's probably something on my end, I'll check it out again and come back if needed.

Comment 4 Sam James archtester

2020-10-29 02:50:57 UTC

(In reply to Nick Kossifidis from comment #3)
> Anyway thanks for the update and the quick response, if it's not the bindist
> flag it's probably something on my end, I'll check it out again and come
> back if needed.

emerge -av www-client/firefox --usepkgonly?

Comment 5 Nick Kossifidis 2020-10-30 18:04:12 UTC

All good turns out the package never made it to the repo, sorry for the mess and again thanks for your time :-)