Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:19:48 -0600, Dale 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. > > You have done it right this time and portage is doing exactly what you > tell it to do. unfortunately that is not the same as what you want it to > do. > > MAKEOPTS governs the number of parallel processes executed by a single > compile. So your setting it is allowing parallel merges, but each one uses > only one CPU core. > > I don't think what you want can be controlled by package.env, since you > want to change an emerge command line option, not an environment > variable. What you want requires "emerge -j 1". > >
That's what I was realizing. I thought I did it right the second time, actually forth time, just second that I posted. ;-) Anyway, I was just hoping that I missed some silly little something. Now to go undo what I went and done. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
