267016 – portage-2.2 parallel-fetch without background terminal

Bug 267016 - portage-2.2 parallel-fetch without background terminal

Summary: portage-2.2 parallel-fetch without background terminal

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Blocks:	184128 377365
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Reported:	2009-04-21 20:48 UTC by Kanstantsin Shautsou
Modified:	2022-10-20 02:44 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Kanstantsin Shautsou 2009-04-21 20:48:30 UTC

FEATURES="parallel-fetch".
If file not downloaded during emerge'ing, it starts downloading in background.
Request for enabling downloading without backgrounding.

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-04-22 00:54:56 UTC

"Request for enabling downloading without backgrounding."

So, you want FEATURES="-parallel-fetch" ? You simply have two options, to download many files in a row in the background (while something is compiling) *OR* you download the files in the foreground when they are requested. This is toggled with that parallel-fetch setting. I'm tempted to close this as invalid but I'm not on the portage team. Please explain in more detail what you are requesting. thx

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2009-04-22 05:38:42 UTC

As I understand it, the idea is to have "fetching show in the foreground whenever there's nothing else interesting going on". Of course, it would only apply to someone who isn't using --quiet or --jobs > 1.

Comment 3 Kanstantsin Shautsou 2009-04-22 08:07:39 UTC

Zmedico is right.