Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > 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.
Nice. So all that remains is adding a '--parallel' option that would launch an 'emerge -f <args> &' at the beginning of the process. If I get a chance, I'll take a look at the bug mentioned earlier, see what's already been tried/done. Cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
