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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:48:34 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> Now I have got a related question: Imagine you have got one portage |
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> tree on one box but several boxes that NFS mount it with different |
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> world files. Will several parallel "emerge --fetchonly" processes on |
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> those different boxes still be safe? |
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Yes, because portage uses lockfiles in $DISTDIR. Once one emerge begins |
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downloading a file, any others wanting that file will wait for it. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million |
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typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. |
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Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. |
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