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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:10:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C696E2.7030802@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44C67F0D.5050707@vista-express.com>

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Dale wrote:
> 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.  :\

This is an important detail and you're right to be concerned about it.  However, AFAIK, portage handles this pretty well.  You should receive some type of notice about an "incomplete merge" if a merge has been interrupted.

Zac
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-25 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-25  2:26 [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world Mark Knecht
2006-07-25  2:46 ` Dale
2006-07-25  4:02 ` Zac Medico
2006-07-25 14:45   ` Mark Knecht
2006-07-25 18:39     ` Dale
2006-07-25 19:58       ` Mark Knecht
2006-07-25 20:29         ` Dale
2006-07-25 22:10           ` Zac Medico [this message]
2006-07-26  1:04             ` Dale

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