From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge util-linx; util-linux and sysvinit block eachother.
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:35:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <539709BD.7000106@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5396DF97.7070509@thegeezer.net>
On 10/06/2014 12:36, thegeezer wrote:
>> +1 to just letting portage work with world.
>> >
>> > What I have found useful when trying to do what Alan is attempting, is
>> > to select a chunk of packages at a time (like say all of kde, then a
>> > bunch of daemons). If I get a block, drop it and try the next chunk.
> you might also like to know about my favourite flag "keep-going", which
> drops the failed emerge and goes to the next non-dependent on what failed.
> emerge -uDNa --keep-going
>
I know about --keep-going, I don't like it much.
It's also a different topic, what's being mentioned here is how to get
past the bit where portage fails to give an emerge list due to blockers.
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-10 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-09 11:28 [gentoo-user] emerge util-linx; util-linux and sysvinit block eachother Alan Mackenzie
2014-06-09 11:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-09 19:15 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2014-06-09 21:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-06-10 10:36 ` thegeezer
2014-06-10 13:35 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2014-06-10 14:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-10 17:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-06-10 18:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-10 19:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-06-10 20:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-09 21:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-06-09 21:37 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2014-06-09 22:44 ` Neil Bothwick
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