No compilation, please?

Posted Jul 12, 2024 19:59 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: No compilation, please? by NightMonkey
Parent article: Nix alternatives and spinoffs

> But, the times I've had to rebuild world all at once in the last 5 years has been zero. The work to create centralized binary caches at Gentoo HQ and making binary-only versions of some of the most brittle builds (major web browsers, office suites, multimedia players, etc.) has taken the pain out of everyday upgrades.

You haven't upgraded your profile recently?

Mind you, that was the upgrade from 2017 to 2024, and it was also the upgrade where you were sort-of forced to merged-usr, and it was sort-of the upgrade where you felt pushed forward to get the distro into the third decade.

I think it was only my second profile upgrade in however many years (Istr the one before was 2014), and this upgrade the instructions did say "finish with 'emerge -e @world' " ie "rebuild everything", But how long have I been using gentoo? And this is the first time.

Cheers,
Wol

No compilation, please?

Posted Jul 12, 2024 21:45 UTC (Fri) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link] (1 responses)

Ah, yes, you're right, Wol - I did have to do that migration-related rebuild of world. I was able to skip the merged-usr, tho, with the "split-usr" profiles, as I'm using OpenRC. So, not zero. Once, across all my local systems. I do have distcc and other optimizations set up so it makes doing so less painful in terms of time.

No compilation, please?

Posted Jul 12, 2024 22:26 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

I didn't go to merged-usr, because both my systems are reasonably recent, and systemd. So they were merged-usr from the start.

I went systemd for the same reason I chose gentoo - it's a deliberate choice of a learning curve. My old OpenRC system was just that - too old. I used to have distcc, but I just haven't got round to setting my new systems up the way I would like. I want to share the build directories over the network, and then I'd uprade the faster system (I build binary packages as a matter of course), and then upgrade the slower system with the "use packages if they're there" option.

Cheers,
Wol