From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H6GBT-0004z1-7p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:58:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0F0uTZm023673; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:56:29 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out5.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0F0lTrj001721 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:47:30 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D79170115 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:47:28 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200701141815.38940.bss03@volumehost.net> References: <45AA82FC.4090506@gmail.com> <200701141815.38940.bss03@volumehost.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:17:00 +0930 Message-Id: <1168822020.10384.20.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l0F0uTa1023673 X-Archives-Salt: d1e30880-5da4-4a78-bfa0-bf991e1fe1b2 X-Archives-Hash: 25475531a45757b4d2456273be96656f On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 18:15 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 14 January 2007 13:22, Iv=C3=A1n P=C3=A9rez Dom=C3=ADnguez=20 > wrote about '[gentoo-user] Telling emerg= e=20 > 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 possibl= e > > even when something goes wrong. >=20 > No, there's not. But, there is a way to emerge to restart either from = the=20 > package where it errored out (emerge --resume), or on the next package=20 > (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, --=20 Iain Buchanan When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money. -- Kim Hubbard --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list