On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 at 14:42, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> Where I live, updates to portage itself usually take longer to appear as a
> binary package than as source, so I can't 'getbinpkg'. Therefore I've set:
>
> # cat /etc/portage/env/nobinpkg.conf
> FEATURES="${FEATURES} -getbinpkg"
>
> # cat /etc/portage/package.env
> sys-apps/portage nobinpkg.conf
>
> But still portage wants to fetch the binary.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
I don't know what you're doing wrong, but FEATURES is an additive
variable, so adding the ${FEATURES} in there is not necessary.
An alternative might be adding it to emerge default opts in make.conf:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="${EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS} --usepkg-exclude 'sys-apps/portage'"
Regards,
Arve
