[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: The merge of emerde with emerge

[Dennis Bliefernicht]

Colin Kingsley wrote:
>>What about emerge --resume --skipfirst in this case? Does quite the
>>thing you want to do here :)
>
> No it doesn't.
>
> --resume restarts an aborted or failed merge, but it starts it at the
> _beginning_ of the last package being worked on. All compilation of
> that package must be repeated.
>
> --skipfirst just skips the first package to be merged during a
> --resume. It is only there so that when one package has compile
> problems you can ignore it instead of actualy fixing them.

The intention was "If you want to skip the current merging", Ctrl-C and 
emerge --resume --skipfirst does exactly that. Compilation of the 
package in progress is irrelevant as it's the package that should be 
skipped :)

Greetz
TriPhoenix


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