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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:48:04
Message-Id: 200601291948.34237.uwix@iway.na
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe? by Michael Sullivan
1 On 29 January 2006 18:53, Michael Sullivan wrote:
2
3 > Keep in mind though that multiple emerges will share resources, so each
4 > process may lose speed...
5
6 True, but "--fetchonly" emerge can pull in sources as fast as possible while
7 the other emerge compiles stuff. That makes sense if you are paying through
8 your nose for bandwidth.
9
10 Now I have got a related question: Imagine you have got one portage tree on
11 one box but several boxes that NFS mount it with different world files. Will
12 several parallel "emerge --fetchonly" processes on those different boxes
13 still be safe?
14
15 Uwe
16
17 --
18 Unix is sexy:
19 who | grep -i blonde | date
20 cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger
21 mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount
22 sleep
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Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>