On 7/13/24 8:42 AM, Peter Humphrey 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?As a matter of curiosity, why do you need to do any such thing at all? If there is no binary package available for portage yet, then portage will automatically build it from source instead, which is exactly what setting -getbinpkg for it would do. So why bother? The only thing that setting -getbinpkg could do is prevent you from using a binary on the off chance that it happens to appear faster for you. Note that independent of whether it's useful to exclude this one package, the functionality doesn't work. You cannot set per-package getbinpkg, this is tracked as https://bugs.gentoo.org/463964 -- Eli Schwartz
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