Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> [14-12-17 07:20]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On my embedded systems (beaglebone black, 2 x Arietta G25) I installed > > Gentoo (of course!:). > > Since these systems and especially the Ariettas are not as fast as a > > PC the greater update, which additionally includes C++ sources to > > compile takes time (read: hours) to finish. Often I run this over > > night. > > > > Since my PC do the forwarding of requests to the internet, it has to > > run the whole time also. > > > > To circumvent this I access the embedded systems via abduco/dvtm, so > > I can log out while the process keeps running. > > > > The current (shorted decription) workflow is > > > > eix-sync > > emerge ... -f (fetching all items, so the connection to the internet is > > no longer needed) > > emerge ... (starting the compilation, logout and shutdown the PC) > > > > > > This includes "Calculating dependencies" twice of the same set of > > data, which also takes a longer time. This is -- technically -- not > > needed. > > > > Is it possible, to do ONE call to emerge, which asks (according > > to option -a, if set ) and given a yes first fetches ALL necessary > > files and data and compiles then everything? > > > > This would save one "Calculating dependencies" and also reduces writes > > to the flash memory. > > > > Is it currently possible somehow and if not: I would like to have it > > included as new feature into an upcoming release of emerge?!?! > > > > Thanks a lot in advance! 8) > > Best regards, > > Meino > > > > > > > > > > > You may want to set this in your make.conf file: > > FEATURES="parallel-fetch" > > What that does, as soon as you start the emerge process, it starts to > download the needed files. It doesn't wait until it is ready to work on > the package to download it. I've had that set for so long, no idea if > anything has changed as far as defaults. I just know it works that way > here. > > If you set that, you should be able to sync, start emerge and when it > downloads the last files/tarballs it needs, you can then remove your > internet connection. You can monitor that with this command. > > tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log > > Hope that helps. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Hi Dale, thanks for your reply ! :) I know of that flag, but it does not exaclty what I want. It parallelizes compilation and downloading. How can I exactly determine, that the last file has been downloaded without watching the monitor all the (because these are embedded systems: "long") time? Best regards, Meino
