[gentoo-user] Any way to signal emerge to stop after the current package?

[gentoo-user] Any way to signal emerge to stop after the current package?

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I have an 'emerge system' going on that will do 74 packages. I
would like to halt it for the evening and restart it tomorrow. Is
there anything more elegant then kill or Ctrl-C for doign this?

Many thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to signal emerge to stop after the current package?

[Zac Medico]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I have an 'emerge system' going on that will do 74 packages. I
> would like to halt it for the evening and restart it tomorrow. Is
> there anything more elegant then kill or Ctrl-C for doign this?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Mark
> 

Use Ctrl-Z instead and then in the morning use fg to restart it.  Just kidding.  Actually, when I had Software Suspend 2 setup on my computer I could leave emerge running through suspend to disk with no problems.

If you're really going to do a full shutdown though, I recommend Ctrl-C and then "FEATURES=keepwork emerge --resume" in the morning.  With keepwork portage won't clean up the builds automatically so you need to manually clean up PORTAGE_TMPDIR in order to reclaim diskspace.

Zac
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Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to signal emerge to stop after the current package?

[Mark Knecht]

On 7/29/05, Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I have an 'emerge system' going on that will do 74 packages. I
> > would like to halt it for the evening and restart it tomorrow. Is
> > there anything more elegant then kill or Ctrl-C for doign this?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> 
> Use Ctrl-Z instead and then in the morning use fg to restart it.  Just kidding.  Actually, when I had Software Suspend 2 setup on my computer I could leave emerge running through suspend to disk with no problems.
> 
> If you're really going to do a full shutdown though, I recommend Ctrl-C and then "FEATURES=keepwork emerge --resume" in the morning.  With keepwork portage won't clean up the builds automatically so you need to manually clean up PORTAGE_TMPDIR in order to reclaim diskspace.
> 
> Zac

Thanks Zac. By the time this message came through it was at 72 out of
74 so I just let it finish. However I'll save the suggestion for next
time this comes up.

cheers,
Mark

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