On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 08:27 +1200, Col wrote: > > > > I have now switched to gdm. It has some more features such as log in in > > a nested window. As I leave my laptop running most of the time (emerge > > -uD world over dial-up) logging in is nothing I do very often. > > > > Do you prefetch all the required source first? > > eg: > # emerge -uDpv world > from the result you can estimate the download time. > # emerge -uDf world > then disconnect > # emerge -uD world > > Also if you can get your timing right, you can prefetch and compile in > different terminals at the same time.
There was a problem at one stage, in that if the compiling instance caught up to the prefetch instance then the compiling instance would start downloading the same source file as the prefetch instance, with corruption ensuing. However some time ago they fixed this by putting a lock file in, so if the compiling instance catches up to the prefetch instance, it will just wait for the package to download and then start compiling it. > > > > Col. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
