emerge --emptytree system

Kaamoss · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:09 pm Post subject: emerge --emptytree system

Just out of curiousity, about how long does it take to emerge the system for the first time for the install? I allready downloaded it first with the emerge --fetchonly --emptytree system. I'm just sitting here watching text fly by kind of bored, so if any one knows that would be great. It's on a pentium 3 with 256 megs of ram. Older kinda of hp so it's a little slow but not too bad.
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Should be done in a week.

inode77 · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:12 pm Post subject:

http://www.gentoo-stats.org/
Hard to guess, maybe this link helps.

Kaamoss · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I'm on package 13 out of 90 right now so I guess it's going to be doing this for a while...
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Vorkar · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 8

Hi,

This is really hard to say because there are many factors that can affect this time. Most importantly your CFLAGS and gcc version affect this time. As a general rule, the more you use optimization CFLAGS the more time it should take to compile and install your packages.

Kaamoss · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:38 am Post subject:

haha yeah...it's almost done now and it's been going since about midnight today
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adsmith · Veteran Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 1386 Location: NC, USA

I keep my scrupulously system up-to-date weekly with emerge -auDtv --newuse world, et cetera, and I keep my /erc/portage/package.* very organized, so everything is always consistent, but despite this I stupidly decided to try to emerge -e system && emerge -e world this past weekend, jsut to see what would happen/change. Nothing did, but it took a hell of a long time.

Overall, the compiling took about 2.5 days (Athlon XP 2000+, with distcc enabled to a similar machine), though it stopped for maybe 15 hours total due to 6 packages which failed to build when I was out of the house or asleep.

So, for the whole deal, including waiting to see emerge error messages, was 2.5 days for about 420 packages. The emerge -e system part only took a half-dozen hours the first morning, however.