Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 18:15 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Sunday 14 January 2007 13:22, Iván Pérez Domínguez 
> <ivanperezdominguez@gmail.com> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Telling emerge 
> to continue when something goes wrong':
> > After installing Gentoo in different machines several times, I wonder if
> > is there any way to tell emerge to keep installing as much as possible
> > even when something goes wrong.
> 
> No, there's not.  But, there is a way to emerge to restart either from the 
> package where it errored out (emerge --resume), or on the next package 
> (emerge --resume --skipfirst).

I should add that --skipfirst is sometimes "bad" because it ignores
dependencies.  If you let emerge do it, then you could only resume
packages whose dependencies were satisfied.

cya,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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