Re: [gentoo-user] stop an emerge (compilation), halt the PC, boot and continue the emerge

[Hogren]

The 2016-06-20 17:52, Ian Bloss wrote :

> Usually what I'll do is ctrl-z which pauses emerge, and then I'll run
> pm-suspend to put the machine to sleep. After I turn it back on again
> I'll issue fg and emerge will resume.

The 2016-06-20 18:29, Mick wrote :

> In addition, if you can use the same procedure for hibernate (to disk)
> if for
> some reason you need to completely remove power from your PC.

Yes, I know that but I was in a special case where I couldn't use it.




The 2016-06-20 17:56, Andrew Lowe wrote :

> What I do may be of help, but then again, it may be all wrong and one
> day the gates of hell may open up and swallow mankind because of what I
> did, but hey, that's life.
>
> There is the FEATURES entry in make.conf, man make.conf. Within this
> are two options "keeptemp" and "keepwork". I enable them, then the
> consequences of which is that stuff is not cleaned up. Hence when I
> rerun the emerge, the "make" within sees the already existing files and
> skips them, in other words it does as "make" is expected to do.
>
> Please bear in mind if you have /var/tmp/portage set up to be a RAM
> disk of some sort, obviously if you turn your machine off, you'll look
> the intermediate files, but if you are hard disk based, they will be
> there when you restart the machine and so when you rerun emerge, the
> part up until when you killed the emerge originally will be skipped.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Andrew

Hey, this is an instrosting option ! Thank you !



The 2016-06-20 18:12, Marc Stürmer wrote :

> Take a look at Tux on Ice, this should do the trick for you.

I already have suspend and hibernate command. Is it different ?



The 2016-06-20 18:41, Raffaele BELARDI wrote :

> I had success in the past using ebuild instead of emerge. Check the man
> page, briefly emerge is equivalent to the following steps in sequence:
>
> $ ebuild fetch
> $ ebuild unpack
> $ ebuild compile
> $ ebuild install
> $ ebuild qmerge
>
> Running 'make' in the temp dir followed by the last two ebuild steps
> only (install and qmerge) should work.
>
> raffaele

Thank you very much for this little course ! It's very introsting !
And it help me very much !



The 2016-06-20 18:42, Willie M wrote :

> This is pretty much what is run when you emerge something.
>
> ebuild [.ebuild] fetch
> ebuild [.ebuild] unpack
> ebuild [.ebuild] compile
> ebuild [.ebuild] install
> ebuild [.ebuild] qmerge
> ebuild [.ebuild] clean
>
> to continue just choose what part the build was on when you quit it and
> start there.
>
> All I really just use is compile and merge. If it didn't get to compile
> it isn't worth it. Just emerge the whole thing again.

Thank you for your additional informations !


The 2016-06-20 22:52, "J." García wrote :

> Yes you can, it is not officially supported to do this but I have done
> it several times (webkits, libreoffice) without problems, what I do is
> make a binary package and then install it, you should have set $PKGDIR
> in make.conf, here's how I've done it:
>
> You stopped at libreoffice, you restart your computer, then you should
> find out what is the exact ebuild you were building, equery can help
> you, if it is an upgrade, i.e.:
>
> $ equery which libreoffice
> ${PORDIR}/app-office/libreoffice/libreoffice-5.1.3.2.ebuild
>
> then you pretend you are emerge, by using the portage user to make the
> build resume, make sure $PKGDIR is writable by the portage user:
>
> $ sudo -u portage ebuild\
> ${PORTDIR}/app-office/libreoffice/libreoffice-5.1.3.2.ebuild \
> package
>
> or nesting both commands:
>
> $ sudo -u portage ebuild $(equery w libreoffice) package
>
> this makes all the previous steps needed (prepare, configure ,build,
> install) if they haven't been done,
> when that is finished you can merge your recently created binary
> package by:
>
> $ sudo emerge -av1K =app-office/libreoffice-5.1.3.2
>
> and resume the general upgrade with:
>
> emerge --resume -av --exclude app-office/libreoffice

Thank you for your alternate method !




Thank you all, very very much for this lot of introsting and helpful 
anwsers !


Hogren