Binpkg

OK, since Alex asked me last Sunday what exactly needs to be done to turn a simple chroot (or even a bloody box) into a binpkg producing environment, here’s a little howto … First, lets start from a freshly unpacked stage3. 1 2 3 4 5 catalyst/x86 stage3-amd64-hardened # chroot . /bin/bash --login # Now, make sure you turn on FEATURES=buildpkg # (and setup anything else you need, like CFLAGS, # LDFLAGS, whatever) linux # echo 'FEATURES="buildpkg"' >> /etc/make.conf With that single change you’re basically nearly finished with setting up the whole thing, the remaining things are just ...

As I pointed out back in October, it’s rather easy to create a setup which syncs a built binary package to a remote node (which is serving them to the world - via http,rsync,ftp - pick your poison). Now, ever since we had slight space problems on miranda ( 🤕 my binpkgs 🤕), I wanted to look into methods on how to get rid of storing them on the buildnode and the webnode. I think now (hehe, it’s only 7pm), I finally managed to get a " proper" bashrc which does a lot of that foo. Take a look at this: ...

For those of you, still using my binary packages. It’s just a waste of disk space for me (6.8G to be exact), so I decided to remove them. I’m gonna give people one week to grab yourself a copy. I’m gonna keep the bashrc and all the other stuff I wrote back when I was still interested in binary packages, but the binary packages are gonna vanish! ...

Just like I announced last week, my binary packages repository is now history. I’m gonna remove the redirections from lighttpd and DNS in a few.