On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:10:15 -0700, walt wrote: > > My deal was the lost compile time. If I had started it about 3 hours > > earlier or the lights would have blinked a few hours later then not > > so much would have been lost. > > That's when I use ebuild instead of starting the emerge from scratch. > Let's say I'm emerging libreoffice and the machine goes down (shudder). > > After fixing the problem I would try the following: > #cd /usr/portage/app-office/libreoffice/ > #ebuild ./libreoffice-3.3.3.ebuild install > > That should pick up where the previous emerge stopped, although the > patches may be reapplied before continuing the compile/install phase.
It will also mean that any files corrupted by the unclean shutdown will be used by the compile/install. This may mean it falls over later or it may install broken software. In this case, restarting from scratch is the safer option, it's not like it is using 6 hours of your time, only the computers. Fixing problems is what uses your time. -- Neil Bothwick There's no place like ~
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