Calculating time for emerge -e world?

AlyM

I was wondering if any knows a quick and easy way of estimating how long an emerge -e world would take (I've been using Gentoo for 6 weeks, and over that time CFLAGS and USE flags have changed, possibly creating some problems for me know I think (by using bad flags somewhere)) based on the portage logs. I know about genlop, but as far as I can tell it can only tell you the time for one package, I need the whole of world + dependicies.

Thank in advance, AlyM.

skunkworx · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 3:44 pm Post subject:

There's probably no real way to accurage calculate how much time it would take to recompile everything. Best you can do is guesstimate based on past experience, and then add a day or two for leeway, especially if your world includes heavyweights like X.

If you want better data, you can start collecting it now by running emerge via the time command.

Giorgio

AlyM · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:55 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Giorgio. Am I right in thinking this is your script? If so, it's a very handy tool, cheers.

Anyway, I was just wondering why the latest version in portage is 0.16.3 (there is not even a more recent version masked), but on freshmeat.net I found 0.20.2 (which did the stuff you were talking about, Estimated update time: 1 day, 23 hours, 38 minutes btw). Seeing as this is only of any use to someone using portage I thought the latest n' greatest version would be there.

Thanks again, AlyM.

kahcepb · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Posts: 34

genlop-0.20.2.ebuild

AlyM · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:28 am Post subject:

Sorry, checking bugs.gentoo.org would have been the obvious thing to do for an ebuild, eh? Oh well.

AlyM.

Giorgio · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:12 pm Post subject:

kahcepb · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Posts: 34

Sorry I forgot to check bugzilla :oops:

(Today's modus operandi: shoot then think :twisted:

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jtp755 · l33t Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 691 Location: USA

do i just copy and save that script and then jsut type whatever i named the script at the command prompt or in a terminal? Is it nessacery to recompile my system after adding alot of USE flags? i had built it wiht only using the X and the defualt ones but last night i added all the ones i wanted/needed to add. i had read about a system recompile but is it required or a good thing todo?