From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PiOhx-00067X-Bt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:04:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55C7FE09C2; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:02:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E04AE09BE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:02:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AEE0568F53B for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:02:04 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:01:58 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies Message-ID: <20110127100158.692bd251@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8cvs47 (GTK+ 2.22.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/Z.0djQ=w9DcmBQ1vfA3qyqI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 103d79ce5e6a2932501c70cdc427b962 --Sig_/Z.0djQ=w9DcmBQ1vfA3qyqI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:12:24 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I'm aware that portage uses locking mechanism before modifying 'world' > > file, but what about the actual building process ? I'd expect emerge > > to check if dependency package is already build/installed (or > > currently being build by another instance) and just skip it in this > > case, however I haven't tried it yet.. Can anybody shred some light > > on this ? =20 >=20 > You can try, but the second instance with simply block until the lock=20 > has been removed. The lock is not there for the entire emerge, I have run two emerges at the same time, such as when I needed to install something while a world update is in progress. It is possible, but not recommended as a general strategy. That's what --jobs is for. --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 21: "Now, then ..." --Sig_/Z.0djQ=w9DcmBQ1vfA3qyqI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1BQpsACgkQum4al0N1GQP06ACeJsJ9QIdeV4gVRq1vgscsml3N 3McAoIzyyLUCfryupLI0Y4qPvQocvEIF =Q3eq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Z.0djQ=w9DcmBQ1vfA3qyqI--