I was looking at the Gentoo forums, and someone mentioned ways to speed up Gentoo and they had something similar.
I don't remember the exact commands, but it went something like this.
In one window, execute the command you have emerge -f world, and in another window, emerge -u world. This will download the packages in the first window and then second window will do the compiling. With the locking feature the second window will wait for the first one to grab the files without having problems.
Kevin <
plug-discuss@firstpacket.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:26, mike hoy wrote:
>> I decided to start with the easy way
>> and later , once i'm more up to date with the whole
>> process, go ahead and compile it myself and choose
>> exactly what is to be compiled
>
>Nothing wrong with that. It's the best way to learn. Let genkernel get
>things up and running, then spend your time playing/learning instead of
>installing. You probably know this, but now that you have a working
>kernel, you can compile new kernels and try them out by adding them to
>your bootloader. If things go wrong, you can always boot back into your
>current working kernel.
>
>> i'm trying to emerge xorg-x11.
>> i'm having some
>> internet probs and i guess that's cuasing it to freeze
>> during the emerge.
>
>Try `emerge -f` to do a "fetchonly". This will fetch the package source
>and any dependencies down to your local box. Once you have everything
>downloaded, go back and do a normal `emerge`.
>
>...Kevin
>
>
>
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