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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.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 16:57:09
Message-Id: 4A27FCBA.2010302@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one by felix@crowfix.com
1 felix@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:08:26AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, <felix@×××××××.com> wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use
7 >>> --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. Every once in a
8 >>> while, it gets forgetful and picks up an emerge from several days
9 >>> previous to try to resume instead of the one that just failed. This
10 >>> is pretty annoying. It started several months ago, sporadically, and
11 >>> seems to be happening more and more often, but not always, and not in
12 >>> any pattern I can discern.
13 >>>
14 >>> This is sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 on ~amd64.
15 >>>
16 >> It may be easier to use the --keep-going switch instead. It allows
17 >> emerge to continue emerging everything else (when possible) and
18 >> skipping unresolved dependencies caused by the failed merges.
19 >>
20 >
21 > Good grief. That's *zackly* what I have wanted for a long time. When
22 > did it get added?
23 >
24 > I will certainly try that next merge. Heck, I might try the most
25 > recent one again anyway just to see miracles in action :-)
26 >
27 >
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30 You can also add that option to make.conf so it will do it even if you
31 forget to type it in. I did that a while back when I found out about it.
32
33 Dale
34
35 :-) :-)