On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:48:48 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote:

>> > Hmmm. And how can you then ever use
> >> 
> >>   emerge --resume --skip-fist
> >> 
> >> if not even the first build is deterministic? I skip the first
> >> package anyway only if the problematic package is the first one to
> >> build after resume, but if I cannot even rely on that?  
> > 
> > 
> > Because it re-uses the previous build order, not re-generate a new
> > one.  
> 
> That's simply not true. Emerge resume calculates the order again and
> for me it starts often with a different package.

Then use emerge --keep-going and portage will take care of skipping
failing merges for you.


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Neil Bothwick

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