wabe wrote: > Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dale wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> I read where someone did this but I can't find it now. I looked at >>> the wiki and did some startpage searches, no luck. Here goes: >>> >>> I generally let emerge build packages in parallel. This works >>> because a lot of packages are small and don't take long to build or >>> much room either. However, there are a few exceptions. For me, >>> Seamonkey, Firefox and Libreoffice cause issues. I would like >>> those to build one at a time instead of at the same time. I've had >>> times where all three have updates but having two of them at the >>> same time occurs pretty regular. I thought I recalled this needing >>> to be in package.env but my test didn't work. I put this in >>> package.env: >>> >>> www-client/seamonkey MAKEOPTS="-j1" >>> www-client/firefox MAKEOPTS="-j1" >>> >>> Since I'm here, you can guess that emerge didn't like that. So, >>> either I'm putting that in the wrong place, the wrong way or >>> something. Oh, I looked at the wiki and I didn't see things like >>> this. I just went with what little I recalled which seems to be >>> not correct. >>> >>> Can someone point me in the right direction here? Examples would be >>> nice because I may want to disable portage on tmpfs as well, for >>> Libreoffice at least. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >> I found another howto. That ended with this setup: >> >> >> >> root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/package.env >> www-client/seamonkey ../env/single.conf >> www-client/firefox ../env/single.conf >> >> >> root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/env/single.conf >> MAKEOPTS="-j1" >> >> >> root@fireball / # >> >> >> >From my reading, I put the setting in the env directory file and >>> the >> package names in package.env. Thing is, it still tries to build them >> both at the same time. Once I get these two to work, I'll add >> libreoffice to it. >> >> My first test gave a error message. I added the ../env/ part and it >> doesn't give a error but it doesn't recognize it either. I'm missing >> something. My eyes ain't real good today, allergies, so I may be not >> seeing something right. > I'm not sure that I understand what you mean. Are you talking about > emerging several packages at the same time and, if so, are you sure > that -j defines how many packages are build simultaneously? > > I know that there exists a FEATURES option for make.conf called > "parallel-install". But I never used this feature or read something > about it, so all I know is that "-j" is an option for the "make" > command. It defines how many jobs are running simultaneously when > you compile a single program. > > -- > Regards > wabe > >
I think you are right. I also have this setting in make.conf: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --backtrack=100 --keep-going -v -j8 --quiet-build=n -1 --unordered-display" I think that is the -j option I want to change. I forgot about the purpose of the other one. I'm pretty sure that one is passed on to make as you said and the one I want to change is the emerge opts. I tested that change, it still didn't work but at least I'm using the right one now. Update on current settings: root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/package.env www-client/seamonkey ../env/single.conf www-client/firefox ../env/single.conf root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/env/single.conf EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-j1" root@fireball / # Thanks Wabe. At least it should be closer. I'm just wondering if I can still do this or not. Maybe it doesn't work that way anymore. Dale :-) :-)
