Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 07:53:53 +0100, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:

> > > Note that says parallel-fetch not build.  From the man page:
> > >
> > > parallel-fetch:  Fetch in the background while compiling. Run `tail
> > > -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log` in a terminal to view parallel-fetch
> > > progress.  
> > 
> > Ahh, I think I see what you are saying.  You want it to fetch and NOT
> > compile until the fetch is finished.  I'm not sure if there is a way
> > to do that or not.  Since it should be able to compile and fetch at
> > the same time, why not try it that way and see how well it works?
> 
> Yes, thats it: First download all stuff THEN start compiling.

Why? The downloads will happen at the same rate but you'll have a head
start on the compiling. The only disadvantage i can see is that you will
not have a notification of when the download finishes, but you could work
around that by having another script check emerge-fetch.log and send a
shutdown to the PC when there is no further output.
> 
> Would --jobs=0 help here? This would say "No packages are build
> simultanously"...I check that!

No. --jobs controls package building, nothing to do with downloading.
parallel-fetch in the closest to what you want as it grabs all the
downloads as soon as possible.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

And on the seventh day God said :wq and then make

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