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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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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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.

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Regards,
Peter.

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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.

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Regards,
Peter.

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