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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:19:43
Message-Id: 200701301911.12421.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles by Neil Bothwick
1 On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:35, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:22:10 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
3 > > > Ask that when you've had a power failure ten hours into an OOo
4 > > > emerge :-O
5 > >
6 > > So you actually used FEATURES=keepwork for that?
7 >
8 > I tend to use "ebuild /pah/to/ebuild package" followed by "emerge -K
9 > package".
10 >
11 > > And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p
12 >
13 > Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages
14 > available. It takes around 15 hours :(
15
16 Ha, ha! :)
17
18 Sat Mar 18 21:22:50 2006 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.0.1-r1
19 merge time: 23 hours, 30 minutes and 58 seconds.
20
21 As if that's not bad enough I remember a couple of years ago I tried it 3
22 times in a row, with different fixes each time (some bug wouldn't let it
23 complete the emerge). I must have been at it for the best part of a week.
24 --
25 Regards,
26 Mick

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o>