151514 – To add parallel, background downloads during compilation

Bug 151514 - To add parallel, background downloads during compilation

Summary: To add parallel, background downloads during compilation

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2006-10-15 15:27 UTC by Marcin Lewandowski
Modified:	2006-10-15 15:29 UTC (History)
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Description Marcin Lewandowski 2006-10-15 15:27:08 UTC

I thought that maybe it will be a good idea to start parallel download of packages during compilation of previous ones. E.g. now I download mozilla-firefox (it takes 30min) - why my portage can't compile previous package at this moment? Then, when it will  start to compile mozilla-firefox, why it can't download something in background? It would save the time.

Comment 1 Marcin Lewandowski 2006-10-15 15:28:25 UTC

Sorry, I cut sentence by mistake:

Of course it would be OK for doing emerge for more than 1 package.

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-15 15:29:55 UTC

man make.conf: FEATURES="parallel-fetch"