From: "jano" <jano@portablehole.net>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multitasked emerge (download while build ...)
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:13:07 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32998.63.204.248.196.1007658787.squirrel@www.portablehole.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1007633747.490.1.camel@djamil>
I doubt I have to mention this, but for the sake of "being careful" to make
sure the programs downloaded are finished before attempting to compile them.
:) Would it be useful to be able to toggle parallel downloading/compiling?
Only case I can see it helpful would be with a fairly antiquated machine.
> I think the minimum we can do right now is:
> having the ebuilds work in a totally independant way , for example
> using a directory exclusivly.
> and/or why not "not" deleting the source tree, so other pakages can use
> the already compiled object files ...
> this is totally "doable" as the strong point of emerge is the fact that
> it doesnt use the shared database stuff ...
>
> thank you guys again for this giant work .
>
> D.
>
> On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 07:04, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
>> tor 2001-12-06 klockan 02.51 skrev Miguel S. Filipe:
>> > While reading this, It reminded me of a thought i allready had.
>> >
>> > Why isn't portage more multi-task? What stops it from, while it's
>> > busy building something, downloading the packages that its going to
>> > (build/compile/install) next?
>> > This would speed up the merging process for those with slow
>> > internet
>> > connections, and it would not affect performance I believe. Is there
>> > any problem with this? Is it just dificult to implement, or its
>> > much more tricky and problematic that it seems?
>>
>> This has been discussed, also the possibility to download all packages
>> before starting to build (so that you can disconnect before starting
>> to build).
>>
>> Even on a fast connection it would be very nice to have the
>> downloading being done while compiling.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mikael Hallendal
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mikael Hallendal
>> Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
>> CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden
>>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-06 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-03 22:12 [gentoo-dev] Evolution 1.0 in Portage Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-04 13:54 ` djamil essaissi
2001-12-05 15:39 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-06 1:51 ` [gentoo-dev] Multiple emerges at the same time. ("multi-tasking" in portage) Miguel S. Filipe
2001-12-06 6:04 ` [gentoo-dev] multitasked emerge (download while build ...) Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-06 10:15 ` djamil essaissi
2001-12-06 17:13 ` jano [this message]
2001-12-06 17:53 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-06 6:41 ` [gentoo-dev] Multiple emerges at the same time. ("multi-tasking" in portage) Daniel Robbins
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