From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G5Tcu-00063m-Ru for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:35:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6PKWKoR024780; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:32:20 GMT Received: from mxo6.broadbandsupport.net (mxo6.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.86]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6PKTEDM023684 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:29:15 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.3] (host-207-68-225-84.vista-express.com [207.68.225.84]) by mxo6.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A78E9B65B9 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:29:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44C67F0D.5050707@vista-express.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:29:01 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060712 SeaMonkey/1.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world References: <5bdc1c8b0607241926o57557e00uddffac0a644fc0d0@mail.gmail.com> <44C597DD.3050802@gentoo.org> <5bdc1c8b0607250745j4b2be55em493ee4c6205ce503@mail.gmail.com> <44C66566.4060306@vista-express.com> <5bdc1c8b0607251258r2f012e69t8da427653d641269@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0607251258r2f012e69t8da427653d641269@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-From: teendale@vista-express.com X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 1f7f80d4-8379-49e5-9498-bfffaf9f5e5d X-Archives-Hash: dc22fd2d930a947827948e8b3f08c97d Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/25/06, Dale wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > 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 :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list