Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world

[Dale <teendale@vista-express.com>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 7/25/06, Dale <teendale@vista-express.com> wrote:
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
> <SNIP>
>> > Now if I could just get the machine to work properly I'd be in heaven!
>> > ;-)
>> >
>> > Cheers all,
>> > Mark
>>
>> Keep in mind that when it is compiling that it is done in a temporary
>> location.  After the compile is done, then it copies it over.  Now if it
>> dies while it was copying to it's place to actually run, usually /, then
>> there could be problems.  Unless it was changed, compiling takes place
>> in /var/tmp/portage.
>>
>> Someone correct me if I am wrong.
>>
>> Dale
>
> Dale,
>   Sorry. My bad for making such an off-hand comment. The emerge
> process worked completely correctly and everything was moved to the
> right place. None of that is a problem.
>
> < snip >
> Cheers,
> Mark

That was for future reference.  If in the future you are seeing it copy
the install over and power fails, then you may need to re-emerge it and
be ready for "issues".  I'm not really sure what those would be though. 
It may work just fine, it may not.

I'm bad at looking to far ahead.  My wife has noticed that too.  :\

Dale

:-)  :-)
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