On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:47:22 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:

> emerge -fuD world &
> sleep 5 &&
> emerge -uDav world
> 
> But that's somewhat hackish.  I like the idea, though.  Unfortunately,
> implementation isn't going to be that easy, unless there is a
> --nodownload flag.  otherwise, you'll have to figure out some way to
> block the emerge process until the file(s) is/are downloaded.

Add "distlocks" to FEATURES in /etc/make.conf. If one emerge process is
already downloading a file, the other will wait for it to complete,
rather than attempting a second download.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

With free advice you often get what you pay for.

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