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From: TN <tnuro@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerges
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:44:00
Message-Id: 442377CA.50300@yahoo.com.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerges by Iain Buchanan
1 Excellent!
2 thanks a lot, I will give it a go.
3
4 Iain Buchanan wrote:
5 > You can edit /etc/make.conf and add noclean to your FEATURES. This way
6 > the temporary stuff in /var/tmp/portage (or wherever it is) will stay
7 > behind, and you can say `emerge --resume` and it will continue.
8 >
9 > HOWEVER: the side effect is that /var/tmp/portage will get very large.
10 > I recommend that you say:
11 >
12 > FEATURES=noclean emerge -u openoffice
13 > FEATURES=noclean emerge --resume
14 >
15 > just for the specific build you want it for.
16 >
17 >
18 > oh yes it is :>
19 >> However, you can use ccache to save the compilations and you could put the
20 >> laptop in standby to continue after moving it.
21 >>
22 >
23 > This is also a good idea.
24 >
25 >
26 >> But I'm affraid those are your only options.
27 >>
28 >
29 > not so.
30 >
31 > You could also install openoffice-bin.
32 >
33 > You could even setup hibernate, so that you don't have to shutdown.
34 > Just hibernate your laptop, and when it starts up again the emerge will
35 > continue like it never stopped.
36 >
37 > HTH,
38 >
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