RE: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge interruption - is it/will it bepossible?

RE: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge interruption - is it/will it bepossible?

[Jeffrey Smelser]

> 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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