7713 – emerge -fk will fetch prebuilt binary packages

Bug 7713 - emerge -fk will fetch prebuilt binary packages

Summary: emerge -fk will fetch prebuilt binary packages

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 All

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)

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Blocks:	2765
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Reported:	2002-09-09 17:28 UTC by SpanKY
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:38 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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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