[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: portage-2.2-rc3 parallel merges quit being parallel

2008-07-27 Thread Duncan
Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:32:10 +0200: I did some benchmarking a while ago with different combinations of -j and -l in MAKEOPTS, using the kernel as testcase, and IIRC the fastest builds were around -l6.0 (on a dual-core

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Repoman subversion support

2008-07-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 24-07-2008 17:38:51 +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: `svn list` returns only files which actually exist in the repository. It doesn't check working copy. You should use `svn st`. Ok, you're right. But svn status simply sucks: [usr/portage/eclass] % touch x11.eclass.rej

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage-2.2-rc3 parallel merges quit being parallel

2008-07-27 Thread René 'Necoro' Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan schrieb: Also, a little monitoring utility that could be run in another terminal and just list and update all the currently merging packages, and any that had failed to merge, so I could take a look at them while the system is still

[gentoo-portage-dev] Exporting basic emerge/portage functionality in an API

2008-07-27 Thread René 'Necoro' Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I think, this is already somewhere on the agenda of portage (perhaps with a low priority ;)), but I nevertheless wanted to ask for the possibility to have as much of emerge's functionality exported in an API as possible =). The reason behind