On Sunday 31 Jul 2016 18:52:23 Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
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> Just out of curiosity what are the differences between the original genlop
> calculation and yours, and how long did it actually take? and what is the
> output of 'genlop -t <cat/pkg>'.
$ genlop -t gcc -f /mnt/rescue/var/log/emerge.log
using logfile /mnt/rescue/var/log/emerge.log
* sys-devel/gcc
Sat Apr 16 10:07:24 2016 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.9.3
merge time: 25 minutes and 41 seconds.
Sun May 15 10:03:34 2016 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.9.3
merge time: 12 minutes and 19 seconds.
Sun Jul 31 11:33:57 2016 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.9.3
merge time: 17 minutes and 58 seconds.
This is a fairly new box, so there aren't many records yet. The last one
above is the one I was talking about.
I can't tell you how long I thought it would take - sorry.
> I think it would be inaccurate in most cases (at least it is for me) but
> if you think the calculation is wrong you should file a bug. For me it
> seems reasonably accurate por packages with consistent build times.
Just those three samples are enough to confirm the inaccuracy, but I don't
really expect anything much better given all the factors we've mentioned.
I was just curious. Thanks for your interest though.
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Rgds
Peter
