Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

[tuxic@posteo.de]

On 12/03 09:09, Spackman, Chris wrote:
> On 2017/12/03 at 06:55am, Dale wrote:
>  
> > I think I get what you are saying.  If for example you start a
> > emerge -e world, a emerge -uDN world or something and then stop it
> > before it finishes, running emerge --resume should pick up where you
> > left off.
> 
> Another helpful option, which I don't think has been mentioned yet, is
> --skipfirst. With --resume, this is helpful when a relatively
> unimportant package fails to compile. Emerge will skip the one that
> failed (because it would be the first one in the resumed emerge) and
> continue on. Later, I go back and see about getting the failed package
> to work. I don't think that --skipfirst is a good idea if an important
> package (one that will affect many other packages) fails. But, I am
> not an expert on that stuff.
> 
> So, if:
> 
> emerge -e @world
> 
> fails (on a relatively unimportant package), you could use:
> 
> emerge --resume --skipfirst
> 
> to continue. I am actually almost 75% done with the system rebuild and
> have had to do this so far with cdrdao and spideroak-bin (which
> probably doesn't matter as it is a -bin package).
> 
> -- 
> Chris Spackman
> 
> GNU Terry Pratchett
> 
> 

Hi,

what is about emerge -e @world --keep-going 
instead?

Cheers
Meino