Re: [gentoo-user] fetch restriction bypass

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:50:18 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:

> > I'm not sure what the big deal is, so portasge skips emerging one
> > package because it can't download the distfile. So what? The previous
> > version worked OK the day before and won't suddenly break because an
> > update is available. Just download and upgrade when you have the
> > time, casting the appropriate curses for those that set the licence.
> >
>
> I agree. To me it's not much of an issue. However sometime ago when
> there was a conversation about how people update their machines I
> mentioned that I always do an
>
> emerge -fDuN @world

I do something similar, from a cron script that runs emerge --sync and a
couple of other bits.

> prior to kicking off the real emerge just to ensure that when the
> build finally does start all the files are here and ready. This sort
> of issue is precisely why I do that.

This still isn't an issue, as long as you use --keep-going. The emerge
world will proceed to update everything but the one affected package.

> I know most people don't like calculating all the dependencies
> multiple times but I prefer to do so, get the files and then pretty
> much be guaranteed that the build proceeds without much attention from
> me.

It is a useful method of detecting potential problems, but this isn't
really a problem. However, as my script emails me the output of emerge -p
world (which means I actually calculate the dependencies three times, but
I don't care as I'm asleep for the first two) I know about the fetch
restriction as soon as I read my mail, and can decide whether to deal
with it immediately or ignore it.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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