From: andrew <jandrewlong@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge --resume question
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:38:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g7vk9c$8qs$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2008.08.13.21.19.50@cox.net>
Duncan wrote:
> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
> 48A33D3B.9090000@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on Wed, 13 Aug 2008
> 15:59:55 -0400:
>
>> Typically when I do a massive upgrade (like to KDE) I fetch the files
>> down, then do the emerge later when I don't need internet access
>> necessarily. However, this time I started the upgrade to KDe4.1 without
>> doing that.
>>
>> What I want to know is, is it possible for me to do an emerge -f
>> --resume to fetch the packages I need /before/ resuming the emerge, say
>> later tonight?
>
> I don't believe so. Even if it worked, that would cross the packages off
> the resume list as they were fetched, so you'd no longer be able to
> resume the full merge.
>
No, this is incorrect. emerge -f --resume does not cross packages off
the resume list.
What you want to do should work properly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-13 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-13 19:59 [gentoo-amd64] emerge --resume question Mark Haney
2008-08-13 20:56 ` Beso
2008-08-13 21:04 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-14 0:11 ` Juan Fco. Giordana
2008-08-14 3:51 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-13 21:19 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2008-08-13 21:38 ` andrew [this message]
2008-08-14 8:08 ` Duncan
2008-08-14 11:20 ` Mark Haney
2008-08-14 13:23 ` Mark Haney
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