macports fetch suggestion

[Rainer Müller]

On 2011-09-13 02:12 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> 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.

It depends in which phase you interrupt the process. The patch or
destroot phase usually cannot be resumed when they modified files
already. Executing the same commands again leads to errors.

>> 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.

No, it would not release the lock. Locking wasn't even mentioned in this
part of the thread :-)

Rainer