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 1G5XtY-0005zr-JK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:09:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6Q16eH9009969; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:06:40 GMT Received: from mxo1.broadbandsupport.net (mxo1.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6Q14PYa028684 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:04:25 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.3] (host-207-68-225-84.vista-express.com [207.68.225.84]) by mxo1.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB7531424E for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:04:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44C6BF91.1060805@vista-express.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:04:17 -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> <44C67F0D.5050707@vista-express.com> <44C696E2.7030802@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <44C696E2.7030802@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: 9c750d03-5a2f-4f9f-96ce-744012c3b7c9 X-Archives-Hash: 045de0208cb95d9b5053eeb7f3b6f3f6 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 :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list