Bug 70958

Summary:	Emerge wait function
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Mathy Vanvoorden <mathy>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	The patch, apply it against portage-2.0.51-r3 Patch again

Description Mathy Vanvoorden 2004-11-12 05:21:58 UTC

Hi,

Since I haven't found any bugs about something similar, I've created a patch against portage-2.0.51-r3 which makes emerge wait for a keypress between install and merge, thus enabling one to stop a running daemon or do something else before files are merged to the live filesystem. This is triggered by using the -w (or --wait) option

I am a noob to python, so please correct me if I made any mistakes, and I hope this patch gets accepted, because it's something I (and I can imagine others too) can really use. It wouldn't be the first time a server crashed on me because I didn't stop apache before updating and tried restarting it afterwards. Using this method, I don't have to stop apache before the compiling starts, which does make a big difference on production servers.

Comment 1 Mathy Vanvoorden 2004-11-12 05:22:57 UTC

Created attachment 43780 [details, diff]
The patch, apply it against portage-2.0.51-r3

Comment 2 Mathy Vanvoorden 2004-11-12 07:40:44 UTC

Created attachment 43784 [details, diff]
Patch again

Fixed spelling mistake

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-11-13 14:23:55 UTC

Bug 4780

Comment 4 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-16 07:20:46 UTC

This can be done with binaries.   
   
emerge -b apache && /etc/init.d/apache2 stop && emerge -k apache   
&& /etc/init.d/apache2 start   
 
Except with this way you can get a faster end result. It is advisable that you 
check any upgrade on a backup server first though.