Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume question

[Teresa and Dale]

Peter Campion-Bye wrote:

>Hi,
>Trying to do an 'emerge -e world' I come up against the odd package that
>doesn't build without some intervention. I know I can do 'emerge --resume
>--skipfirst' and carry on, but sometimes the broken package could be built ok
>with a little intervention, for example, my build breaks on pilot-link, which
>can be simply fixed with 'FEATURES="-sandbox" emerge pilot-link'. Problem is,
>I can't do a resume after this as the emerge list from the world build has
>been blatted when I emerged pilot-link. So, is there any way I can preserve
>the state of the world build, so that after building the breaking package I
>can do a --resume --skipfirst and carry on with the world build?
>Any other suggestions for workarounds?
>thanks
>
>

I did this once.  I renamed the emerge.log then did what needed doing
and then put the back-up back to it's original name, erasing the little
that was generated while fixing something.  It may not work in every
case though but it may be worth a try.

Dale
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