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meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> On my embedded systems (beaglebone black, 2 x Arietta G25) I installed |
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> Gentoo (of course!:). |
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> Since these systems and especially the Ariettas are not as fast as a |
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> PC the greater update, which additionally includes C++ sources to |
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> compile takes time (read: hours) to finish. Often I run this over |
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> night. |
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> Since my PC do the forwarding of requests to the internet, it has to |
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> run the whole time also. |
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> To circumvent this I access the embedded systems via abduco/dvtm, so |
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> I can log out while the process keeps running. |
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> The current (shorted decription) workflow is |
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> eix-sync |
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> emerge ... -f (fetching all items, so the connection to the internet is |
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> no longer needed) |
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> emerge ... (starting the compilation, logout and shutdown the PC) |
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> This includes "Calculating dependencies" twice of the same set of |
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> data, which also takes a longer time. This is -- technically -- not |
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> needed. |
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> Is it possible, to do ONE call to emerge, which asks (according |
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> to option -a, if set ) and given a yes first fetches ALL necessary |
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> files and data and compiles then everything? |
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> This would save one "Calculating dependencies" and also reduces writes |
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> to the flash memory. |
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> Is it currently possible somehow and if not: I would like to have it |
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> included as new feature into an upcoming release of emerge?!?! |
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> Thanks a lot in advance! 8) |
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> Best regards, |
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> Meino |
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You may want to set this in your make.conf file: |
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FEATURES="parallel-fetch" |
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What that does, as soon as you start the emerge process, it starts to |
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download the needed files. It doesn't wait until it is ready to work on |
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the package to download it. I've had that set for so long, no idea if |
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anything has changed as far as defaults. I just know it works that way |
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here. |
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If you set that, you should be able to sync, start emerge and when it |
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downloads the last files/tarballs it needs, you can then remove your |
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internet connection. You can monitor that with this command. |
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tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log |
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Hope that helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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