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

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

Zac Medico wrote:
> 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

I have had to stop emerges before and it doesn't hurt anything.  The
power failure is basically the same as ctrl + c or killing the process. 
I have done that a few times before and it has never been a problem or
caused any that I know of. 

That said, I have never had the same situation during the actual copying
of the install from the tmp location to the running system though.  I'm
sure someone that codes portage has thought of this and as you said, I
am sure there is some "feature" that would deal with this.  I'm not sure
when this error or message would pop up though.  If you think about it,
the actual install is really short so it may not happen very often.

Let's just hope nobody has this problem and it causes any problems.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)
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