Set gpkg as BINPKG_FORMAT default

[akhuettel]

Untested so far, but pretty straightforward given existing mechanisms

[thesamesam]

Did you have a chance to test this yet?

[akhuettel]

Needed an entry in meson.build, but otherwise works now as intended. Here's the required patch for portage-9999.ebuild :

diff --git a/sys-apps/portage/portage-9999.ebuild b/sys-apps/portage/portage-9999.ebuild
index 5bf30b190b87e..abf843edb7357 100644
--- a/sys-apps/portage/portage-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/portage/portage-9999.ebuild
@@ -205,6 +205,10 @@ pkg_preinst() {
                env -u FEATURES -u PORTAGE_REPOSITORIES \
                        PYTHONPATH="${D}${sitedir}${PYTHONPATH:+:${PYTHONPATH}}" \
                        "${PYTHON}" -m portage._compat_upgrade.binpkg_multi_instance || die
+
+               env -u BINPKG_FORMAT \
+                       PYTHONPATH="${D}${sitedir}${PYTHONPATH:+:${PYTHONPATH}}" \
+                       "${PYTHON}" -m portage._compat_upgrade.binpkg_format || die
        fi
 
        # elog dir must exist to avoid logrotate error for bug #415911.

[akhuettel]

Just as a remark, this has, ahem, interesting side effects if binpkg-request-signature is enabled but local binpackage signing is not set up. You suddenly can't generate any binary packages locally anymore! (Trying to do so results in a backtrace and invalid files in the package directory.)

[thesamesam]

Just as a remark, this has, ahem, interesting side effects if binpkg-request-signature is enabled but local binpackage signing is not set up. You suddenly can't generate any binary packages locally anymore! (Trying to do so results in a backtrace and invalid files in the package directory.)

I think this was always a problem if you set binpkg-request-signature -- i.e. it's not new to the default change, it just makes it more prominent? Or am I misunderstanding?

EDIT: Ah, I guess it may be a new issue for people if they had it set and were using remote stuff relying on a binhost but never set the default locally as you don't need the local BINPKG_FORMAT to match. Duh.