Bug 88410

Summary:	Fetch files first
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	drscotsman
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description drscotsman 2005-04-08 15:22:00 UTC

Doing a command twice can be tedious (first command to fetch, second to emerge), especially if you have to edit it in a standard terminal or terminal emulator.  For example.

emerge --fetchonly =media-libs/libpng-1.2.8 =media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1 =x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 =media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3 =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 && emerge --buildpkgonly =media-libs/libpng-1.2.8 =media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1 =x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 =media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3 =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1

(The above is a cut down real life example, for space reasons).  If I realise I need to add something to that, I have to spend time going through a lot of text before I can add it in, and it's much harder in a real terminal without paste funcionality.

Therefore I propose an argument to fetch files first then emerge in one command.  For example:

emerge --fetchfirst --buildpkgonly =media-libs/libpng-1.2.8 =media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1 =x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 =media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3 =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1

Comment 1 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-08 15:25:08 UTC

No... use an alias or bash function.  Don't see any benefit from this.
emerge -f ~= just fetch.
emerge -b ~= build pkgs, but just binpkg.
They're kind of mutually exclusive ops...