From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GnJE0-0002BE-1f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:23:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kANILEHG016315; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:21:14 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp1.nildram.co.uk [195.149.33.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kANILEWC031443 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:21:14 GMT Received: from wstn.prhnet (prh.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.251.123]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47DA084B50; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:21:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Interrupting portage gracefully Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:21:13 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611231821.13640.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 8ba49434-4806-4ee6-b1c2-03a07d2f4273 X-Archives-Hash: a7b51536e84338c729f75d33060726dc Does anyone here know of a signal I can pass to portage to make it stop at the end of the current package? Quite often I find I'm emerging quite a lot of packages, and I'd like to shut the machine down for the night and resume in the morning. (I have been running it all night, but it's getting to be a bit noisy in the fan department.) -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list