Re: [gentoo-user] Question about compilation

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Matt Jolly wrote:
> 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
>
>



Oops.  I didn't think about it being on tmpfs.  Given I have 128GBs of
memory now, I have a lot on tmpfs.  So, after a reboot, it would be gone
anyway.  Still, it would be nice if emerge had this feature, especially
for some of the big ones.  My big ones are LOo, Firefox and that qtweb
thing.  Last one being the largest. 

Worth a thought.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)