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From:  andrew <jandrewlong@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-amd64]  Re: emerge --resume question
Date:  Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:38:52 -0400
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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.