On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:01, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2011-9-12 17:54 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> If you still find yourself in a situation where MacPorts is taking a long >> time to build a port and you need to leave your Internet connection, you can >> interrupt the build by pressing ctrl+c, then fetch any remaining >> dependencies with "sudo port fetch" as above, then resume the installation >> by re-issuing the "sudo port install" command. Note that I would not >> recommend interrupting MacPorts with ctrl+c in any phase other than the >> build phase; doing so might lead to errors when you resume, and if so you >> would have to clean the port and start the build over. > > I wouldn't trust random build systems to get that right.
In my many years of experience with MacPorts, most ports will resume ok if you interrupt the build phase. A small handful might not. > Suspending with ctrl-z is generally a lot safer. That wouldn't end the port process though, would it? Which wouldn't release the lock. Which is what the whole exercise is about. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
