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On 08 Oct 2001 22:05:28 +0200 Mikael Hallendal <hallski@g.o> |
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> mån 2001-10-08 klockan 20.06 skrev Gold is Heavy: |
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> > Question 1: |
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> > Can I run two emerge's side by side? Are there any |
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> locking/race/mutex |
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> > issues involved? Just curious. I think running 2 emerges can |
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> speed |
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> > things up a bit sometimes, if I get lucky and one of them compiles |
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> > while the other one downloads :). |
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> Hi! |
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> Yes you can do multiple emerge's at the same time. It's not a good |
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> idea |
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> if both emerges requires you to emerge the same dependency but |
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> otherwise |
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> there shouldn't be no problems. |
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> Since we don't use a database-file (we store the installed packages |
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> directly on the filesystem) there are no locking involved. When |
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> doing |
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> much job (like this weekend :) I usually emerge three-four packages |
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> at |
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> the same time. |
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Sound plausible, but in direct contradiction to what someone (Daniel?) |
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said a few weeks(months?) ago - namely, don't do it. |
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