From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KTNlG-0006V4-GB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:20:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E653E027F; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:20:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA13E027F for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KTNl9-0006yc-2T for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:19:59 +0000 Received: from ip68-231-12-43.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.12.43]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:19:59 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-12-43.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:19:59 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge --resume question Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:19:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <48A33D3B.9090000@ercbroadband.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-12-43.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6c294b3e-1720-45f8-8c1a-4bfb7c3f2a7e X-Archives-Hash: 8297407e15fbf0786b958f333bfc6018 "Mark Haney" posted 48A33D3B.9090000@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:59:55 -0400: > Typically when I do a massive upgrade (like to KDE) I fetch the files > down, then do the emerge later when I don't need internet access > necessarily. However, this time I started the upgrade to KDe4.1 withou= t > doing that. >=20 > What I want to know is, is it possible for me to do an emerge -f > --resume to fetch the packages I need /before/ resuming the emerge, say > later tonight? I don't believe so. Even if it worked, that would cross the packages off= =20 the resume list as they were fetched, so you'd no longer be able to=20 resume the full merge. =20 However, if you have FEATURES=3Dparallel-fetch turned on, portage will=20 start emerging the first package and while it's going, portage will be=20 fetching the other packages in the background. Depending on how long the= =20 first merge takes and the speed of your net connection, and assuming=20 there's no fetch error, you may well have all the rest fetched by the=20 time the first one is finished. But... I'm not sure you can change FEATURES in the middle of an emerge=20 either, and have them picked up for the rest of the session (including=20 for a --resume). If you had the feature turned on at the beginning, you=20 may well already have everything downloaded. =3D8^) If you didn't, well= ... --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman