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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.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 16:09:15
Message-Id: 58965d8a0906040908k5a82de1cp5925a0bb5997fa7e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one by felix@crowfix.com
1 On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, <felix@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use
3 > --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. Every once in a
4 > while, it gets forgetful and picks up an emerge from several days
5 > previous to try to resume instead of the one that just failed. This
6 > is pretty annoying. It started several months ago, sporadically, and
7 > seems to be happening more and more often, but not always, and not in
8 > any pattern I can discern.
9 >
10 > This is sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 on ~amd64.
11
12 It may be easier to use the --keep-going switch instead. It allows
13 emerge to continue emerging everything else (when possible) and
14 skipping unresolved dependencies caused by the failed merges.

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