[olug] Gentoo pre-compile in the background w/o install?

Adam Lassek adam.lassek at gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 23:28:37 UTC 2005


Check out the ebuild command. I don't remember the exact syntax, but
you can do each step of the emerge system individually without emerge.

On 9/16/05, Daniel Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
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> I'm running a Gentoo server and have it check nightly for any package
> updates, and then it e-mails me if there are any.
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> What I would like to do is have it download and pre-compile each update
> when it finds one -- that way when I get on and decide to update the
> packages I don't have to wait for the compile to finish.
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> Is there a way to do this? I had though about a chroot setup, but
> that would get kinda complicated...
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> Dan
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