Possible to emerge running programs? emerge >1 package?

NuclearFusi0n · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 297

Is it possible to emerge stuff like kde while kde is running? or like emerge kdelibs or something? (need to recompile some stuff with new use flags)

Also, how can I emerge different stuff sequentially? Like, with only one command, can I have portage emerge kdelibs, then start emerging mozilla-firebird, and then start emerging cdrdao? I know you can do that using some special syntax at the command line, and I"m currently googling for a guide....

edit: or will this work

azambuja · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 1:51 pm Post subject:

yes, it is possible to compile stuff while running...
if you want to emerge pack1, pack2 and pack3 simply type:

NuclearFusi0n · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 297

Ian · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 8:49 pm Post subject:

portage doesn't actually "install" the new stuff untill it's all completely built, if i'm not mistaken. it builds it in /var/portage (check your make.conf file) and once EVERYTHING for a certain package is done, it moves it into the correct directory on the system.

on top of that, i believe that the way linux works, if you start a program, linux loads the entire program into memory, so when you upgrade, you must restart everything. i'm not entirely sure on this, but i know that from upgrading firebird, i left a window open, and it still worked, just much of the functionality was gone, as certain libraries or files were missing, and when i restarted the browser, everything worked fine again.

Pythonhead · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 9:09 pm Post subject:

Some things may not work in KDE after you install a few packages. What I did was install a really lightweight small window manager like Fluxbox and used that while I compiled KDE.