Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net>]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 16:27, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> 
wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge':
> #!/bin/bash
> emerge --deep --update --world --fetchonly
> emerge --deep --update --world
>
> ...but I'd like to get an emerge going on the 1st package as soon as
> it's finished downloading, whilst having the downloads of all the other
> packages continue in a separate thread.

Try adding '&' to your first line to start it as a background process.  I 
did this for months.  MAKE SURE emerge --info SHOWS THAT YOU ARE USING THE 
DISTLOCKS FEATURE.

It's a separate process instead of a separate thread, but it should do what 
you want.  You may also want to throw a '> /dev/null 2>&-' before the '&', 
but that depends on your sensibilities.

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