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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [Request] Allow emerge to continue emerging unaffected packages on failure.
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:29:05
Message-Id: 484B35E4.7080902@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [Request] Allow emerge to continue emerging unaffected packages on failure. by felix@crowfix.com
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4 felix@×××××××.com wrote:
5 > On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:13:16AM -0400, Jason Cipriani wrote:
6 >
7 >> What I would like to see is a command line option to emerge that enables the
8 >> following simple behavior:
9 >
10 > Pardon me if I am wrong, but I want this too, and to me the simplest
11 > analogy is to make. If some targets fail, make keeps on building the
12 > ones it can, until it is left with no buildable targets. I too have
13 > developed a wrapper using --resume --skipfirst, but that feels like a
14 > kluge. What I would like is an emerge option to generate a Makefile
15 > for output (-M looks available on a quick man check). Then instead of
16 > emerge -ptuvDN, I would use -MtuvDN, and run make at my leisure. I am
17 > incredibly naive about the inner workings of portage, but since it has
18 > dependencies, it does not seem entirely farfetched to generate a Makefile.
19 >
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21 Why not just take the features from make and add them to portage
22 itself? That way you can just treat the portage configurations as
23 the "Makefile".
24
25 Zac
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