Bug 7713

Summary:	emerge -fk will fetch prebuilt binary packages
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	SpanKY <vapier>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kevin, mholzer
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	2765

Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-09-09 17:28:33 UTC

i maintain a few 486/586 boxes which arent really capable of building 
packages.  so i build them on a server and then manually wget the resulting 
package files over to each machine ...

it would be nice if in like /etc/make.globals one could define BINPKG_HOST or 
something along those lines that when you do `emerge world -kuf` it would try 
to grab the binary packages from BINPKG_HOST using the variable as the base URL

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-10 08:58:46 UTC

Not a bad idea. These types of features will be appearing post-1.4.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-07-30 15:53:47 UTC

and now we have -g -G