A question or two about emerge --resume

Stu L Tissimus

Okay, I've been running my laptop for about 3 days straight, going from the gentoo install to my new installation and i've been emerging all sorts of stuff on it. Anyway, I have to reboot to get XFree86 working (and I also want to check if my splash screen works). But I've got OpenOffice emerging, and I don't want to lose my 2 days worth of compiling. Now, does emerge --resume work pretty well? Does it let me start again from where I stopped? And does it work after a reboot?
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Genone · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 12:15 am Post subject:

emerge --resume will restart the last package it did not finish on the last run, so it won't work if you stopped your openoffice compile after a few hours. For that you would use

Stu L Tissimus · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 2:26 am Post subject:

Wait, so I am allowed to cancel it and then reboot and continue? (I just want to be sure... losing 2 days of compiling an a P3 500 MHz is not fun)
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Genone · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 2:30 am Post subject:

Well, it should work but I wouldn't recommend it and I haven't tested this much. Also I've never compiled openoffice myself, so I can't really say how stable the build process is.

Roguelazer · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 10:35 am Post subject:

Try CCACHE
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tecknojunky · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 1:21 pm Post subject:

andrew_j_w · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 534 Location: York, UK

You could try CTRL+ALT Cing the emerge, then when you've rebooted going to the portage work directory....

# cd /var/tmp/portage/<package>/work/<some-other-stuff>
# make

Then when that's finished run

# ebuild <path to ebuild file> install
# ebuild <path to ebuild file> qmerge

I think you might be able to replace the cd'ing and make with a call to ebuild compile, but as I'm not on my home gentoo box I can't test it.

Regards,
Andrew