Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:08:26AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM,  <felix@×××××××.com> wrote:
> > I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use
> > --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible.  Every once in a
> > while, it gets forgetful and picks up an emerge from several days
> > previous to try to resume instead of the one that just failed.  This
> > is pretty annoying.  It started several months ago, sporadically, and
> > seems to be happening more and more often, but not always, and not in
> > any pattern I can discern.
> >
> > This is sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 on ~amd64.
>
> It may be easier to use the --keep-going switch instead. It allows
> emerge to continue emerging everything else (when possible) and
> skipping unresolved dependencies caused by the failed merges.

Good grief.  That's *zackly* what I have wanted for a long time.  When
did it get added?

I will certainly try that next merge.  Heck, I might try the most
recent one again anyway just to see miracles in action :-)

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