is it risky to emerge 2 different things at the same time?

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is it risky to emerge 2 different things at the same time? I was just wondering, because there are many times when i am compiling something that is gonna take a while, and i also want to install something else. would this mess up if they had the same dependencies or does portage take care of that?

Flake · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 8:56 am Post subject:

Yes i would also like to know.

unfortunately the portage manual doesn't state.

i think as long as the two (or more) emerges don't share any requirements it should work.
but i would hate to see two instances of X being compiled side by side cause i did a emerge kde / emerge gnome

Jeevz · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 11:39 am Post subject:

As far as I know, you wouldn't get two instances of X. Portage compiles the source and builds it into a directory structure inside /tmp. When everthing is done, Portage moves the directory structure from /tmp to /. So you would only have one instance of X because the first instance would be overwritten. However, you will be wasting resources compiling both instances of X at once (as Flake noted).

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

geburns · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 65 Location: st paul, mn

folks:

afaik, it's not a problem emerging a number of packages at a time. i do it all the time. it would be a good idea to make sure the dependencies are met or at least not going to clobber or race one another. i was emerging gimp, cups and mozilla on different threads, other than a load average higher that 5, i really didn't have any issues.

-g

Utoxin · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 4:27 pm Post subject:

Definately okay to do it. I just finished an 8 hour emerge session, in which I emerged about 50 different packages. Worked flawlessly. Portage is truly a great system.

slik

cfrogjump · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Utah

I emerged mozilla, gimp, and gnome at the same time. no problems at all.

niyogi · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 6:43 am Post subject:

i've done this in the past without any issues.... i guess the question is whether there are packages that are duplicates in the merge lists of each of the "target" packages you want to emerge (when you --pretend the two packages)

did that make *any* sense to anybody?

-S

Jeevz · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 11:27 am Post subject:

hbbio · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 38 Location: Paris, France

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Utoxin · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 10:37 pm Post subject:

Wait... Are you running more than one copy of emerge at once? I wouldn't recommend that. In fact, it probably slows down the whole process. If you want to emerge more than one thing, do it in the same statement. Example:

hbbio · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 38 Location: Paris, France