Re: [gentoo-amd64] Resuming an emerge where it left off

[Paul de Vrieze]

Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
> Is there a way of resuming an emerge of a package at exactly the place
> where it stopped, like restating a make where it stopped?
>
> For example, it took hours for me to get to the point where the emerge
> of openoffice failed because I was using the wrong JDK. It would be nice
> not to have to toss away all that work and to be able to restart from
> the point where I left off.
>
> I see in /etc/make.conf.example that there is a feature called "noauto"
> that seems to do what I want, but every time I've tried using it, it has
> restarted from the beginning. I didn't try it with openoffice, but if I
> had I would have tried:
>
>         ebuild openoffice-2.0.4.ebuild compile qmerge
>
> Is what I'm after possible?

As long as you don't mess with the stages (the .compiled file for 
example) it should work more or less. A little work will be redone (like 
running configure again), but make will then skip most of the steps. 
This generally goes wrong if you change useflags or significantly change 
the environment (like a different major java version). The result 
normally is just another miscompile so it might be worth your effort.

Paul
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