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    "## Automatically creating new binhost directories when profile or gcc version changes"
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    "On Gentoo Linux packages are compiled which is a time and energy consuming.\n",
    "To minimise both, I have a binhost to share compiled binaries between devices.\n",
    "The issues occurs when gcc major version changes - or a profile bump happens.\n",
    "If I do not notice either - problem. Binaries might not be compatible.\n",
    "So I wanted to automate a process of detection of those changes and automatically create subfolder for new binaries.\n",
    "When investigating I learned a neat trick. For the wise ones this is trivial, for me it was enligtening.\n",
    "Here it comes."
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    "On a regular system, emerge resides here:"
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    "$ which emerge\n",
    "/usr/bin/emerge"
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    "On my box with binhost:"
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    "$ which emerge\n",
    "/usr/local/bin/emerge"
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    "And here is $PATH:"
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   "source": [
    "$ echo $PATH\n",
    "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/lib/llvm/18/bin:/usr/lib/llvm/17/bin"
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    "So we see that on binhost box, there is emerge that resides in location preceeding regular emerge - so it gets called first.\n",
    "It contains a shell script as follows:"
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    "#!/usr/bin/env bash\n",
    "#\n",
    "# Script checking that binhost path exists before running emerge and\n",
    "# creating it if not exists\n",
    "\n",
    "PROFILE=$(eselect profile show|sed -n 2p|cut -d '/' -f4)\n",
    "GCC_VERSION=$(eselect gcc show|cut -d '-' -f5)\n",
    "BINHOST_DIR=\"/var/cache/binpkgs/${PROFILE}/gcc-${GCC_VERSION}.x/armv8a\"\n",
    "\n",
    "if [ ! -d \"${BINHOST_DIR}\" ]; then\n",
    "        echo \"${BINHOST_DIR} does not exist, creating\"\n",
    "        mkdir -p \"${BINHOST_DIR}\"\n",
    "else echo \"Binhost directory ${BINHOST_DIR} exists, proceeding with emerge ...\"\n",
    "fi\n",
    "\n",
    "PKGDIR=\"${BINHOST_DIR}\" /usr/bin/emerge \"$@\""
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    "So on every profile change subfolder to /var/cache/binpkgs gets created,\n",
    "on every gcc major version change, subfolder to /var/cache/binpkgs/<profile> gets created.\n",
    "If folder already exists script only prints a message.\n",
    "Then it calls /usr/bin/emerge - the regular emerge - with $PKGDIR variable, so binary packages are saved to the correct directory. "
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   "source": [
    "This is structure of /var/cache/binpkgs:"
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    "$ tree -L 3 /var/cache/binpkgs/\n",
    "/var/cache/binpkgs/\n",
    "├── 17.0\n",
    "│   └── gcc-13.x\n",
    "│       └── armv8a\n",
    "└── 23.0\n",
    "    ├── gcc-13.x\n",
    "    │   └── armv8a\n",
    "    └── gcc-14.x\n",
    "        └── armv8a"
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    "One less thing to worry about."
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