Bug 133088

Summary:	appending apps to the emerging list
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Lauri Hakko <aperculum>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Lauri Hakko 2006-05-12 00:21:47 UTC

I do emerge -auD world almost everyday and sometimes I want to emerge something while it's still doing the update so I was hoping to have option to append something to be merged while it's still doing it. example follows:

emerge -auD world

while I have list of apps if compiling(which can take quite a while) I could do something like 

emerge --append someapp

and it would add it to the list of apps to emerge instead of start another instance

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-12 02:23:54 UTC

Not really possible, dependency calculation is done before emerge starts. Also, you cannot list 'world' or 'system' at the same time with individual ebuilds.

Comment 2 Konstantin Münning 2006-05-12 03:08:44 UTC

Why don't you simply type

emerge someapp

in the same window/console/terminal where your emerge -auD world runs? Then the second emerge would run after the first finishes and you will not have a second instance. ;-)