On 7/29/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
