Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge world --emptytree problems

[Chad Huneycutt]

Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 July 2002 21:24, Andreas Kotowicz wrote:
>>I just did a "emerge --update world --emptytree" and due to a time sync
>>it stopped after about 90% of all packages (and 1 day of compiling). If
>>I now rerun "emerge --update world --emptytree" it wants to recompile
>>the whole thing again. why doesn't it write down to some file which
>>packages have been finished so the remaining ones can be done? or is
>>this maybe a bug - or even wanted?
>
> It is "predictable" behaviour and such not a bug. What you could do is get a
> list of everything to be included in the compile, and put it in a file (after
> removing the colors)
> Then you could make some smart grep on the emerge log (you did log, didn't you
> ;-) ) to check everything that has allready been compiled. Subtract those
> files (remove every compiled package from the world file) and supposed the
> filename is TOBUILD you do a
> emerge `cat TOBUILD`

If you don't have a log, you can probably figure out which packages to 
exclude by doing an mtime-based find on /var/db/pkg.  Then you should be 
able to see the 10% that need to be rebuilt.

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Chad Huneycutt