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Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2017, 18:13:21 CET schrieb Jörg Schaible: |
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> Am Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:00:47 +0100 schrieb Marc Joliet: |
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> > Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2017, 10:45:41 CET schrieb Jörg Schaible: |
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> >> Hi, |
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> >> Am Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:07:08 -0500 schrieb John Blinka: |
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> >> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards |
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> >> > |
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> >> > <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> >> How do I skip grub and continue? |
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> >> > |
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> >> > emerge --skipfirst --resume |
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> >> This is unfortunately really dangerous, because "emerge --resume" will |
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> >> recalculate the order of the outstanding packages and you have no |
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> >> guarantee that the first one will be the one that failed the last run. |
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> >> In that case you skip an arbitrary package and you may increase your |
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> >> problems. |
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> >> You can use --skipfirst only if you have restarted emerge with --resume |
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> >> only and you have ensured that it will really continue with the failing |
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> >> package. You may abort the build then with CTRL-C and restart emerge |
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> >> with both options. |
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> > That clashes with my understanding, so I looked it up, and it turns out |
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> > |
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> > I was right. From emerge(1): |
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> >> --skipfirst |
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> >> This option is only valid when used with --resume. It |
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> >> removes the first package in the resume list. |
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> >> Dependencies are recalculated for remaining packages and |
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> >> any that have unsatisfied dependencies or are masked will |
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> >> be automatically dropped. Also see the related |
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> >> --keep-going option. |
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> > Note the "remaining dependencies" part. Otherwise, what would be the |
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> > point of --skipfirst if it were so unpredictable? |
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> Well, that's the difference between theory and practice. I've been bitten |
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> more than once, but you may do as you want, it's your system ... |
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Ah, but I *don't* use "--resume --skipfirst", so I'm in the clear :-) . |
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But if this is truly something that happens, have you filed a bug yet (if you haven't done so |
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already)? |
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Greetings |
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-- |
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Marc Joliet |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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