How many minutes does "TTL" refer to, and can I somehow control
myself what TTL I'm willing to accept? Something along the lines of
BINHOST_TTL=n emerge --getbinpkg ... ?
portage looks up the TTL in the package index file (Packages)¹ and
honors it unconditionally², so as a downstream user of a binhost, it's
not possible to override this setting.
The default is 3600 seconds as defined by PORTAGE_BINHOST_TTL in
make.conf(5). Note that this setting defines which value is used when
creating the package index and not which value portage accepts when
updating.
¹ https://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/binpackages/23.0/x86-64/Packages
²
https://codeberg.org/gentoo/portage/src/commit/c492f93bccc3399c5fde86e969e168cff469a5ac/lib/portage/dbapi/bintree.py#L1561
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