Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl@×××××××××××.at>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Resuming an emerge where it left off
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:16:56
Message-Id: 453806FC.8010404@getdesigned.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Resuming an emerge where it left off by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > ebuild /usr/portage/category/package-version.ebuild merge
3 >
4 > Whereas emerge clears the work directory and starts again, running ebuild
5 > directly does not. It's also possible with emerge with
6 > FEATURES="keepwork" but I prefer the ebuild method.
7 >
8 With the Thunderbird ebuild, at least, directly invoking ebuild starts
9 compilation over, but it does not re-unpack the files. I'm not quite
10 sure how it does that, though. I know it re-runs configure, which might
11 have something to do with it.
12 It might actually resume properly on other ebuilds.
13
14 Sebastian Redl
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Resuming an emerge where it left off Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>