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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:56:10
Message-Id: 20090604165559.GA13495@crowfix.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one by felix@crowfix.com
1 On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:18:14AM -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:08:26AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
3 > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, <felix@×××××××.com> wrote:
4 > > > I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use
5 > > > --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. Every once in a
6 > > > while, it gets forgetful and picks up an emerge from several days
7 > > > previous to try to resume instead of the one that just failed. This
8 > > > is pretty annoying. It started several months ago, sporadically, and
9 > > > seems to be happening more and more often, but not always, and not in
10 > > > any pattern I can discern.
11 > > >
12 > > > This is sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 on ~amd64.
13 > >
14 > > It may be easier to use the --keep-going switch instead. It allows
15 > > emerge to continue emerging everything else (when possible) and
16 > > skipping unresolved dependencies caused by the failed merges.
17 >
18 > Good grief. That's *zackly* what I have wanted for a long time. When
19 > did it get added?
20 >
21 > I will certainly try that next merge. Heck, I might try the most
22 > recent one again anyway just to see miracles in action :-)
23
24 Unfortunately, it does exactly the same thing.
25
26 *** Resuming merge...
27 Calculating dependencies ..^H^H... done!
28 * One or more packages are either masked or have missing dependencies:
29 and it picks up the same several day old failed emerge instead of the
30 one it was running.
31
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34 Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>