[gentoo-dev] Portage Enhancement

[gentoo-dev] Portage Enhancement

[Yannick Koehler]

I was using portage to install multiples packages at the same time but
it doesn't seems that portage is able to do such a thing.  It would be
nice if there was a way for portage to figure out that the module it's
about to start building is already being built/fetch in another shell
and pause (not quit) until that is other shell is completed.

Yannick Koehler

PS: I love gentoo... 

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Enhancement

[Mikael Hallendal]

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tor 2002-01-24 klockan 11.45 skrev Yannick Koehler:
> I was using portage to install multiples packages at the same time but
> it doesn't seems that portage is able to do such a thing.  It would be
> nice if there was a way for portage to figure out that the module it's
> about to start building is already being built/fetch in another shell
> and pause (not quit) until that is other shell is completed.

Hmm .. this sounds like more work than gain. The two (or more) instances
of portage would have to communicate to work out who is doing what.

Just don't start two instances of portage that will install the same
packages. This is still a big gain from RH and Debian (for example),
since they don't let you install several independent packages
simultaniously.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

> PS: I love gentoo... 

Good to hear :)

-- 
Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden


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