On 18/11/2024 09:21, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
I also added "--usepkg-exclude 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources virtual/*" to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, as was recommended by one of the guides anyway :)Hm, I can't see any logic in Gentoo developers wasting electrons and key strokes to provide at least one "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" and a ple- thora of "virtual/*" packages on the binhost and then advising to ex- clude them from being used. Which guide recommended that?
The in-depth "Binary package guide" [1], section 3.7 "Additional client settings".
I guess I misspoke by referring to it as "recommendation" but the example given, which excludes "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources", can be seen as de facto recommendation as it is quite sound.
It makes sense as the "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" package does not have a "binary" package in the sense of a running kernel, which is provided by "sys-kernel/gentoo-kerne
l-bin".Emerging gentoo-source simply shows it as an "[ebuild]" which is what I would expect for a package that is supposed to only contain source code. Meanwhile, gentoo-kernel-bin is correctly being pulled from the binhost as "[binary]".
As for "virtual/", well they don't really contain anything so there's no binary to provide. I'm not sure if there's anything "[binary]" on the binhost for them as I would struggle to see what that would be other than a label for a given... version/revision?
Regards, Victor [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide
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