On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:52:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Ask that when you've had a power failure ten hours into an OOo > > > emerge :-O > > > > So you actually used FEATURES=keepwork for that? > > Doesn't FEATURES=keepwork cause /var/tmp/portage/<pkg cat>/<pkg name> to > not be deleted after a *successful* merge? I don't use that feature and > the work files for all failed emerges are always left behind. Not that > they are especially useful in any way...
Actually it can be reused with FEATURES=keepwork to decrease the time to complete the emerge instead of starting all over again. I've mostly used it when a big emerge failed due to a broken test case (with FEATURES=test). > > Anyway if you know > > how to do that you certainly know how to avoid that /tmp gets wiped > > during reboot too (which it doesn't unless you make it so). And OOo > > only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p > > Hah, so my machine isn't so bad. 4 hours 57 minutes 34 seconds with > everything enabled except linguas (english only) and dev stuff. Well, this is a three year old laptop so I'm satisfied with that.. :) -- Bo Andresen
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