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  • Re: [gentoo-user] checking for binpkgs

    From J.O. Aho@21:1/5 to Peter Humphrey on Thu Jul 3 17:50:01 2025
    On 03/07/2025 17.32, Peter Humphrey wrote:
    Greetings,

    Some time ago a method was posted of checking whether a particular Gentoo binpkg was available, and I meant to make a note of it but forgot. I haven't found the right search phrase to find it on my mail server, either.

    Would someone remind me, please?

    Thanks.

    Subject: [gentoo-user] When binpkgs are not yet available
    Author: Peter Humphrey
    Date: 2025-06-14

    Greetings,

    I came across this today: https://bugs.gentoo.org/924772#c27 . It
    shows a way
    to restrict updates in which binpkgs have not yet been made available.

    Just a hint to anyone who sometimes has to cope with this condition,
    as I do

    Hope that helps....


    Subject: [gentoo-user] When binpkgs are not yet available
    Author: Peter Humphrey
    Date: 2025-06-16

    It's not as useful as I hoped. It can't accept sets or wildcards:
    only specific
    package names.


    I guess that was the one you was looking for.

    --
    //Aho

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  • From Eli Schwartz@21:1/5 to Peter Humphrey on Thu Jul 3 18:00:01 2025
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    On 7/3/25 11:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
    Greetings,

    Some time ago a method was posted of checking whether a particular Gentoo binpkg was available, and I meant to make a note of it but forgot. I haven't found the right search phrase to find it on my mail server, either.

    Would someone remind me, please?


    emerge --getbinpkg {pkg}

    will print a message already, if there is NOT a binpackage for you but
    adding some package.use would cause a binpackage to be used.


    --
    Eli Schwartz

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  • From Peter Humphrey@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 3 17:40:02 2025
    Greetings,

    Some time ago a method was posted of checking whether a particular Gentoo binpkg was available, and I meant to make a note of it but forgot. I haven't found the right search phrase to find it on my mail server, either.

    Would someone remind me, please?

    Thanks.

    --
    Regards,
    Peter.

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  • From Peter Humphrey@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 6 11:10:01 2025
    On Thursday, 3 July 2025 16:50:47 British Summer Time Eli Schwartz wrote:
    On 7/3/25 11:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
    Greetings,

    Some time ago a method was posted of checking whether a particular Gentoo binpkg was available, and I meant to make a note of it but forgot. I haven't found the right search phrase to find it on my mail server,
    either.

    Would someone remind me, please?

    emerge --getbinpkg {pkg}

    will print a message already, if there is NOT a binpackage for you but
    adding some package.use would cause a binpackage to be used.

    Yes, but that's not what I meant. Someone, a dev I think, posted a specific query that would check for a binpkg. I can't remember more detail, or I'd include it.

    --
    Regards,
    Peter.

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