Usually what I'll do is ctrl-z which pauses emerge, and then I'll run pm-suspend to put the machine to sleep. After I turn it back on again I'll issue fg and emerge will resume.
The --resume flag just attempts to continue a failed emerge list. On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 11:02 Hogren <hog...@iiiha.com> wrote: > > > Hello !! > > I have a little question about portage. > > There are many big softwares like Firefox, LibreOffice. At a certain > moment, I need to stop the compilation to halt the PC. > > But, when I boot up again the PC and I «emerge --resume», it restart the > compilation process. > > Is there a way to not restart the compilation process ? > I think that if I enter in the temp directory and I type «make && make > install», it will install the software but it will not update portage > database. > > > Thank you for your response ! > > Bye > > > > Hogren >
