emerge should optionally do checkpoints

Irre · Guru Joined: 09 Nov 2013 Posts: 434 Location: Stockholm

Every now and then emerge gives up due to trivial errors like lack of swap or disk space. It would then be nice to be able to restart from the latest checkpoint, like this

avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

`emerge --resume`?
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Irre · Guru Joined: 09 Nov 2013 Posts: 434 Location: Stockholm

Naib · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:59 am Post subject:

you can use the ebuild command to call the different stages of an ebuild. is this what you are after?
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ct85711 · Veteran Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1791

I'm just trying to see how good it would work, when usually there's only a handful of packages that takes a while to compile. Beyond those select few packages that does take some time, the rest generally compiles within 5 or so minutes. This doesn't change much, even if I am working on my old 800 Mhz computer (pre 64-bit).

As for failing, for the last decade, the any failings I've encountered is always a compile failure, not from memory and hard-drive. Last time I had a memory (includes lack of swap space) failure, was over 15 years ago; and since I've never had to deal with that since.

Irre · Guru Joined: 09 Nov 2013 Posts: 434 Location: Stockholm