[gentoo-user] emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

[gentoo-user] emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

[Dale]

Hi folks.

I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive.  Just felt like doing 
a fresh one instead of copying.  Anyway, I got most everything 
installed.  I was doing my last set of installs, things like seamonkey, 
firefox, pigdin, gtkam and all the other programs I use for this and 
that.  I did copy my old make.conf over from the old install.  I have 
the --keep-going option in there.  Who wants to start a LARGE emerge to 
have it stop for some package that isn't a big deal?

I'm sure people have heard of googleearth and the file size mismatch 
problem.  I thought it was fixed since I have not had the issue in a 
good while.  Anyway, it appears it wasn't fixed.  Portage stopped 
because of this package and while it should be finished, it now has 
about another 7 hours of compile time.

Can someone explain to me why it stopped instead of finishing with the 
other packages?  Googleearth is not a library and nothing else depends 
on it either.  It failing is not a issue.  I would much rather portage 
to have emerged the rest then told me googleearth was having its usual 
bad hair day.

Is there another option I can use that I don't know about?

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :_)

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

[walt]

On 05/27/2010 02:42 AM, Dale wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like doing a fresh
> one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I was doing my
> last set of installs, things like seamonkey, firefox, pigdin, gtkam and all the
 > other programs I use for this and that. I did copy my old make.conf over from the
 > old install. I have the --keep-going option in there.

Hm. Does it work if you use the --keep-going option on the command line instead
of in make.conf?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

[Dale]

walt wrote:
> On 05/27/2010 02:42 AM, Dale wrote:
>> Hi folks.
>>
>> I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like 
>> doing a fresh
>> one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I 
>> was doing my
>> last set of installs, things like seamonkey, firefox, pigdin, gtkam 
>> and all the
> > other programs I use for this and that. I did copy my old make.conf 
> over from the
> > old install. I have the --keep-going option in there.
>
> Hm. Does it work if you use the --keep-going option on the command 
> line instead
> of in make.conf?
>
>

I haven't tried that.  Your suggestion made me think of something to 
look at tho.  I checked the logs since it records what is being done and 
the options.  I noticed this:

1274924669:  *** emerge --with-bdeps --ask --verbose --buildpkg 
seamonkey gkrellm hddtemp kbackup k3b tkdvd myspell-en screen uptimed 
scribus autounmask elogv elogviewer flagedit mirrorselect pfl porthole 
gimp gtkam hugin alsamixergui avidemux smplayer iftop nettop traceroute 
wireshark pppconfig wvdial iptables pidgin ntp whois hplip 
http-replicator googleearth hdparm hwinfo lshw smartmontools dosfstools 
shake sys-power/nut htop iotop lsof links mozilla-firefox adobe-flash 
gecko-mediaplayer mesa-progs gkrellm-themes
1274924866: >>> emerge (1 of 137) sys-fs/sysfsutils-2.1.0 to /

So, emerge picks up on the others but not that one.  I then moved it 
from one section in make.conf and put it in the other.  Now it sees the 
option.  I guess it was in the wrong place.  For the record, I had it in 
FEATURES and moved it to the EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS.  I guess the last one 
is where it is supposed to be.  I may have copied it to the wrong place 
since portage would never move things in make.conf.  I need better 
glasses.  lol  Funny that emerge didn't print a error tho.

Thanks for shining a light in the dark tunnel.

Dale

:-)  :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

[walt]

On 05/27/2010 07:39 AM, Dale wrote:
> walt wrote:
>> On 05/27/2010 02:42 AM, Dale wrote:
>>> Hi folks.
>>>
>>> I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like doing a fresh
>>> one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I was doing my
>>> last set of installs, things like seamonkey, firefox, pigdin, gtkam and all the
>> > other programs I use for this and that. I did copy my old make.conf over from the
>> > old install. I have the --keep-going option in there.
>>
>> Hm. Does it work if you use the --keep-going option on the command line instead
>> of in make.conf?
>>
>>
> I then moved it from one section in make.conf and put it in the other. Now it sees
 > the option. I guess it was in the wrong place. For the record, I had it in FEATURES
 > and moved it to the  EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS.

Augh!  Why didn't you tell me that years ago?  I would have been using that trick
myself all this time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

[Dale]

walt wrote:
> On 05/27/2010 07:39 AM, Dale wrote:
>> walt wrote:
>>> On 05/27/2010 02:42 AM, Dale wrote:
>>>> Hi folks.
>>>>
>>>> I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like 
>>>> doing a fresh
>>>> one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I 
>>>> was doing my
>>>> last set of installs, things like seamonkey, firefox, pigdin, gtkam 
>>>> and all the
>>> > other programs I use for this and that. I did copy my old 
>>> make.conf over from the
>>> > old install. I have the --keep-going option in there.
>>>
>>> Hm. Does it work if you use the --keep-going option on the command 
>>> line instead
>>> of in make.conf?
>>>
>>>
>> I then moved it from one section in make.conf and put it in the 
>> other. Now it sees
> > the option. I guess it was in the wrong place. For the record, I had 
> it in FEATURES
> > and moved it to the  EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS.
>
> Augh!  Why didn't you tell me that years ago?  I would have been using 
> that trick
> myself all this time.
>
>

If I knew you needed to know, I would have told you.  I wish there was a 
mailing list that only had changes being made to portage.  New features 
and options that we don't know about.  Reading the man page just doesn't 
get it for me.  Sometimes I read the man page but just don't quite have 
that light bulb moment.

I think I actually read about that on this list.  Someone else was doing 
a emerge -e world after really borking something and had frequent 
compile failures.   I think he was trying to change the CHOST or 
something.  I remember it was a huge mess.

Sorry I didn't know but will try to do better next time. < Dale gets his 
crystal ball out >

Dale

:-)  :-)