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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @ world -> @preserved-rebuild ->   @preserved-rebuild -> what next?
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:38:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091113223818.33e01b4c@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0911131419g6738ad3al4a836a3ae10ad51a@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:19:26 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:

> I agree that we want to be in agreement but then what are our options
> if emerge @preserved-rebuild goes into an endless loop as it seems it
> was doing yesterday?

Was it an endless loop? AIUI you emerged twice and the @preserved-rebuild
count decreased. In my experience, it can occasionally take a few runs to
clear the list, sometimes subsequent runs add packages that were not
there previously, but it all clears in the end, I have NEVER had to
resort to deleting the registry file manually.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-13 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-12 14:43 [gentoo-user] emerge @ world -> @preserved-rebuild -> @preserved-rebuild -> what next? Mark Knecht
2009-11-12 14:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-12 15:14   ` Mark Knecht
2009-11-12 16:19     ` Mark Knecht
2009-11-12 16:28       ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-12 16:49         ` Mark Knecht
2009-11-13 12:39   ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-13 18:42     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-13 19:46       ` Mark Knecht
2009-11-13 20:57         ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-13 22:19           ` Mark Knecht
2009-11-13 22:38             ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-11-13 23:00               ` Mark Knecht
2009-11-13 23:13                 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-14  0:19                   ` Dale
2009-11-14  1:06                   ` Mark Knecht
2009-11-14  8:37                     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-14 19:51                     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-14 19:49                   ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-16  8:58                     ` Erik

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