On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:48:34 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Now I have got a related question: Imagine you have got one portage > tree on one box but several boxes that NFS mount it with different > world files. Will several parallel "emerge --fetchonly" processes on > those different boxes still be safe?
Yes, because portage uses lockfiles in $DISTDIR. Once one emerge begins downloading a file, any others wanting that file will wait for it. -- Neil Bothwick We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
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