macports fetch suggestion

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:01, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2011-9-12 17:54 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> If you still find yourself in a situation where MacPorts is taking a long time to build a port and you need to leave your Internet connection, you can interrupt the build by pressing ctrl+c, then fetch any remaining dependencies with "sudo port fetch" as above, then resume the installation by re-issuing the "sudo port install" command. Note that I would not recommend interrupting MacPorts with ctrl+c in any phase other than the build phase; doing so might lead to errors when you resume, and if so you would have to clean the port and start the build over.
> 
> I wouldn't trust random build systems to get that right.

In my many years of experience with MacPorts, most ports will resume ok if you interrupt the build phase. A small handful might not.

> Suspending with ctrl-z is generally a lot safer.

That wouldn't end the port process though, would it? Which wouldn't release the lock. Which is what the whole exercise is about.