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[Ondra Tomecka <otom7630 AT lucy.troja.mff.cuni.cz>]

Hi,

Did you try ctrl-Z to stop the casting? I use it from time to time without 
any problems. This suspends the process, and when you need to continue, 
just use fg command to put the process to the foreground again. However, 
this requires that you don't shut your machine down ;-) But with notebooks 
this shouldn't be problem, as you can just suspend and resume again when 
you arrive to destination. This way I currently have uptime 57 days 21 
hours on my notebook. Next reboot planned when kernel 2.6.8 is out :)

Hope this helps,
Andy



On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Rohan Nicholls wrote:

> I have been reading the docs quite a bit lately, and there are warnings
> about stopping sorcery or cast in the middle of what it is doing, but
> nothing about if there is a way to safely stop it.
> 
> This came about when I did the full rebuild, and was running out of time
> before I had to go home and it was happily still chugging along. 
> Fortunately it stopped in time for me to get home, but it got me to
> thinking....
> 
> I understand that killing the process while compiling is a bad idea, but
> does it mess up the queue or internal housekeeping to stop cast when it
> is asking you questions?  ie. before it starts installing a new
> package.  And if it does would it be possible to add an option to allow
> a user to pause its execution, have it save its current state to be
> continued later?
> 
> Just something I came across in my explorations.  Very nice system you
> have built here everyone, the dependency handling is amazing.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rohan
> 
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