On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:30:43 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> > From time to time an emerge world fails to update every possible
> > package because of a failure with one that causes the whole process
> > to fail. I remember reading about a tool which would continue to
> > upgrade/install packages whether some failed or not and then pipe the
> > list of problematic packages to a file. Does anyone know what the the
> > name of that tool is or any other tool that might have a similar
> > behavior to the one I just described?  
> 
> emerge <options> world || until emerge --resume --skipfirst; do :; done

Add "; emerge <options> -p world" to the end and you'll also get a list of
the packages that failed.


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Neil Bothwick

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