When using parallel jobs (i.e. a "--jobs=2" argument to emerge, for example) and verbose output, the status line at the bottom of the output displays a wrong number of completed jobs in some cases. As far as I can tell, this happens when some of the ebuilds being emerged contain no "installation phase" -- see the following sample output: <snip> >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Starting parallel fetch >>> Emerging (1 of 56) virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.08 >>> Emerging (2 of 56) virtual/perl-digest-base-1.16 >>> Emerging (3 of 56) virtual/perl-IO-Compress-2.024 >>> Emerging (4 of 56) dev-perl/HTML-Tagset-3.20 >>> Emerging (5 of 56) virtual/perl-Digest-MD5-2.39 >>> Emerging (6 of 56) virtual/perl-libnet-1.22 >>> Emerging (7 of 56) dev-perl/TermReadKey-2.30 >>> Emerging (8 of 56) perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils-1.23 >>> Emerging (9 of 56) dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36-r1 >>> Emerging (10 of 56) dev-perl/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.11 >>> Installing (9 of 56) dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36-r1 >>> Installing (10 of 56) dev-perl/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.11 >>> Emerging (11 of 56) dev-perl/YAML-Tiny-1.41 >>> Emerging (12 of 56) dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.43 >>> Installing (11 of 56) dev-perl/YAML-Tiny-1.41 >>> Installing (12 of 56) dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.43 >>> Emerging (13 of 56) perl-core/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.27.03 >>> Emerging (14 of 56) virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.10 >>> Installing (14 of 56) virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.10 >>> Emerging (15 of 56) virtual/perl-Archive-Tar-1.54 >>> Installing (13 of 56) perl-core/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.27.03 >>> Emerging (16 of 56) virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.024 >>> Installing (15 of 56) virtual/perl-Archive-Tar-1.54 >>> Installing (16 of 56) virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.024 >>> Emerging (17 of 56) virtual/perl-Package-Constants-0.02 >>> Emerging (18 of 56) virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.024 >>> Installing (17 of 56) virtual/perl-Package-Constants-0.02 >>> Installing (18 of 56) virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.024 >>> Emerging (19 of 56) perl-core/Storable-2.20 >>> Emerging (20 of 56) virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.17 >>> Installing (20 of 56) virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.17 >>> Emerging (21 of 56) perl-core/MIME-Base64-3.08 >>> Installing (19 of 56) perl-core/Storable-2.20 >>> Installing (21 of 56) perl-core/MIME-Base64-3.08 >>> Emerging (22 of 56) perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.27 >>> Emerging (23 of 56) virtual/perl-Sys-Syslog-0.27 >>> Installing (23 of 56) virtual/perl-Sys-Syslog-0.27 >>> Jobs: 13 of 56 complete, 2 running Load avg: 1.89, 1.58, 1.03 <snap> As you can see, it seems that only those jobs are taken into account for which the "Installing ..." line is printed. Reproducible: Always
This is covered in the faq: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/faq.xml "When packages are built in parallel with the --jobs option, why aren't some packages installed immediately after they have finished building?"
