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 1G5VBg-0001B6-Nq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:15:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6PMD4EZ021573; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:13:04 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6PMAkNN031643 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:10:47 GMT Received: from [192.168.24.6] (ip68-5-234-231.oc.oc.cox.net [68.5.234.231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCCF6441E for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <44C696E2.7030802@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:10:42 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060603) 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> <44C67F0D.5050707@vista-express.com> In-Reply-To: <44C67F0D.5050707@vista-express.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5b70f224-2a4a-49c4-ab8e-70688e8d0259 X-Archives-Hash: da1ae414dc6fcd8a4309349b75f0ba8a -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFExpbh/ejvha5XGaMRAn/UAJ0R3bD2iI0ugYobM7HD8HGG1GmslgCg57mB XpLiecgbcVrK5ZFD79slMpI= =mMqZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list