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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to unstable
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:14:58
Message-Id: m2o5bdc1c8b1004121114z98b6521g2c788d1eea625079@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to unstable by Marc Joliet
1 On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote:
2 > Am Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:13:26 -0700
3 > schrieb Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>:
4 >
5 >> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
6 >> > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:11:53 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
7 >> >
8 >> >> > Doing system first makes good sense. Then you can update your config
9 >> >> > files, follow the openrc update etc and then reboot. The world part of
10 >> >> > the update will take quite a while, especially if you use KDE or
11 >> >> > GNOME.
12 >> >>
13 >> >> <hehe> Less than most PC. It's an i7-980x with 24GB of RAM with RAID1.
14 >> >
15 >
16 > Gah, I'm getting PC envy ;-) !
17 >
18 >> A couple of packages in this OpenRC upgrade aren't building. I hope
19 >> they are less important. So far groff and help2man have failed so I
20 >> did --resume --skip-first and moved on for now.
21 >
22 > Just a note: you can also specify "--keep-going" and portage will do that for
23 > you and even recalculate the dependencies before continuing. After it's done,
24 > it gives you a message listing the packages that failed.
25 >
26
27 Thanks for pointing that out. When doing a long set it means I don't
28 have to keep coming in here to make sure it's doing the most it can.
29 Nice addition.
30
31 Cheers,
32 Mark