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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:19:48 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> Dale wrote: |
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>>> Howdy, |
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>>> I read where someone did this but I can't find it now. I looked at |
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>>> the wiki and did some startpage searches, no luck. Here goes: |
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>>> I generally let emerge build packages in parallel. This works because |
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>>> a lot of packages are small and don't take long to build or much room |
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>>> either. However, there are a few exceptions. For me, Seamonkey, |
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>>> Firefox and Libreoffice cause issues. I would like those to build one |
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>>> at a time instead of at the same time. I've had times where all three |
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>>> have updates but having two of them at the same time occurs pretty |
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>>> regular. I thought I recalled this needing to be in package.env but |
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>>> my test didn't work. I put this in package.env: |
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>>> www-client/seamonkey MAKEOPTS="-j1" |
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>>> www-client/firefox MAKEOPTS="-j1" |
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>>> Since I'm here, you can guess that emerge didn't like that. So, |
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>>> either I'm putting that in the wrong place, the wrong way or |
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>>> something. Oh, I looked at the wiki and I didn't see things like |
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>>> this. I just went with what little I recalled which seems to be not |
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>>> correct. |
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>>> Can someone point me in the right direction here? Examples would be |
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>>> nice because I may want to disable portage on tmpfs as well, for |
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>>> Libreoffice at least. |
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>>> Thanks |
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>>> Dale |
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>>> :-) :-) |
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>>> |
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>> I found another howto. That ended with this setup: |
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>> root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/package.env |
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>> www-client/seamonkey ../env/single.conf |
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>> www-client/firefox ../env/single.conf |
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>> root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/env/single.conf |
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>> MAKEOPTS="-j1" |
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>> root@fireball / # |
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>> From my reading, I put the setting in the env directory file and the |
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>> package names in package.env. Thing is, it still tries to build them |
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>> both at the same time. Once I get these two to work, I'll add |
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>> libreoffice to it. |
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>> My first test gave a error message. I added the ../env/ part and it |
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>> doesn't give a error but it doesn't recognize it either. I'm missing |
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>> something. My eyes ain't real good today, allergies, so I may be not |
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>> seeing something right. |
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> You have done it right this time and portage is doing exactly what you |
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> tell it to do. unfortunately that is not the same as what you want it to |
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> do. |
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> MAKEOPTS governs the number of parallel processes executed by a single |
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> compile. So your setting it is allowing parallel merges, but each one uses |
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> only one CPU core. |
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> I don't think what you want can be controlled by package.env, since you |
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> want to change an emerge command line option, not an environment |
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> variable. What you want requires "emerge -j 1". |
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That's what I was realizing. I thought I did it right the second time, |
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actually forth time, just second that I posted. ;-) Anyway, I was just |
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hoping that I missed some silly little something. |
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Now to go undo what I went and done. |
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Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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