Re: [gentoo-amd64] Interrupting portage gracefully

["Michael Weyershäuser" <thedude0001@gmx.de>]

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Peter Davoust wrote:
> I don't know if this helps, but I usually run emerge <package> && init
> 0 so it shuts off after it's finished (it would be nice if portage had
> an --shutdownafter option, but oh well). The only problem is that if
> there's an error in portage it won't shut down. 

Try "emerge foo; shutdown -h now" instead, that won't break if there is
an error during the emerge and will shut down the computer. Of yourse
you need to check if all packages really emerged the next day.

> On 11/23/06, Thomas Rösner <Thomas.Roesner@digital-trauma.de> wrote:
>>
>> ^Z and suspend-to-disk?
>>

No need for ^Z, suspend should be able to handle suspending during a
running emerge and resume at the same point when coming back up. I've
done this several times with suspend2 and it works just fine.


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