Re: [gentoo-user] Question about compilation

[Matt Jolly <kangie@gentoo.org>]

Hi Dale,

On 9/2/25 10:20, Dale wrote:

> Would that survive a full reboot?  I'm asking about a regular desktop 
> top system.  It's rare but sometimes I am doing updates and have a power 
> failure and have to shutdown until power comes back. I've always just 
> done a emerge --resume but that starts any unfinished emerges from 
> scratch.  Just curious if this would work. If I can remember to do it if 
> it does.  ;-)

Provided that your /var/tmp/portage isn't a tmpfs this will survive
reboots and enable you to use `sudo ebuild foo-1.2.3 ebuild merge`
to continue for _that package only_.

The rest of the emerge will need to be restarted and the depgraph
recalculated to finish whatever upgrade you were doing.

If it's something big like Chromium though, by all means use
`ebuild` to save a bunch of time - it's a lot better than
global `ccache`. :)

Cheers,

Matt