Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I read where someone did this but I can't find it now. I looked at > > the wiki and did some startpage searches, no luck. Here goes: > > > > I generally let emerge build packages in parallel. This works > > because a lot of packages are small and don't take long to build or > > much room either. However, there are a few exceptions. For me, > > Seamonkey, Firefox and Libreoffice cause issues. I would like > > those to build one at a time instead of at the same time. I've had > > times where all three have updates but having two of them at the > > same time occurs pretty regular. I thought I recalled this needing > > to be in package.env but my test didn't work. I put this in > > package.env: > > > > www-client/seamonkey MAKEOPTS="-j1" > > www-client/firefox MAKEOPTS="-j1" > > > > Since I'm here, you can guess that emerge didn't like that. So, > > either I'm putting that in the wrong place, the wrong way or > > something. Oh, I looked at the wiki and I didn't see things like > > this. I just went with what little I recalled which seems to be > > not correct. > > > > Can someone point me in the right direction here? Examples would be > > nice because I may want to disable portage on tmpfs as well, for > > Libreoffice at least. > > > > Thanks > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > > > I found another howto. That ended with this setup: > > > > root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/package.env > www-client/seamonkey ../env/single.conf > www-client/firefox ../env/single.conf > > > root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/env/single.conf > MAKEOPTS="-j1" > > > root@fireball / # > > > >From my reading, I put the setting in the env directory file and > >the > package names in package.env. Thing is, it still tries to build them > both at the same time. Once I get these two to work, I'll add > libreoffice to it. > > My first test gave a error message. I added the ../env/ part and it > doesn't give a error but it doesn't recognize it either. I'm missing > something. My eyes ain't real good today, allergies, so I may be not > seeing something right.
I'm not sure that I understand what you mean. Are you talking about emerging several packages at the same time and, if so, are you sure that -j defines how many packages are build simultaneously? I know that there exists a FEATURES option for make.conf called "parallel-install". But I never used this feature or read something about it, so all I know is that "-j" is an option for the "make" command. It defines how many jobs are running simultaneously when you compile a single program. -- Regards wabe
