From: "Jeffrey Smelser" <jsmelser@travelnow.com>
To: <gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge interruption - is it/will it bepossible?
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:05:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <121DA8C73F98EE409B20AC0065CB93020E7F76@mantaray.tnow.net> (raw)
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 07:21, Pavel Vondricka wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I often would like to continue with a partly done emerge
> (e.g. manually
> > interrupted compilation or compile failure -because of some
> stupid USE flag
> > setting, aso.), without emerge starting from the scratch again.
> > It is not only "a bad dream at the end of a 12-hour
> compilation", but I'd also
> > like to just unpack the sources, stop emerge, edit/patch
> the sources
> > manually, and then let emerge continue and compile and
> install it, sometimes.
>
> > Is it possible with the current emerge or will it be
> possible with the future
> > portage-ng?
>
> One easy way to get functionality like this is to "emerge
> ccache". Then
> restarting merges should used previously-cached compiles and
> make things
> go a lot faster.
>
> > What is the meaning of emerge -resume? It never did anything for me.
I use it a lot for emerge -e world. If it fails for some reason, do a emerge -e --resume world, will pick up where it left off.
However, it does restart that package itself.. But at least I don't have to recompile the last 50-70 packages I just did.
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