Converting to using -bin

2025-01-30

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Since I moved out of school, I can't have free electricity for Gentoo compilations anymore. Recently I got to know that there's a new and64-v3 binhost directory, which perfectly covers two of my laptop computers. This article records how I made the switch.

Updating portage configuration

in /etc/portage/binrepos.conf/gentoobinhost.conf, edit the following:

# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consider using a local mirror.

[gentoobinhost]
priority = 1
sync-uri = https://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/amd64/binpackages/23.0/x86-64-v3/

Add the following features to /etc/portage/make.conf:

FEATURES="getbinpkg binpkg-request-signature"