From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF0D1387FD for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:36:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56A07E09E7; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com (mail-we0-f171.google.com [74.125.82.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2CB65E097B for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:36:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id q58so3893521wes.16 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:36:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XbmQ4z7SoDQ7GjxAF1kXzY7mfw8zFQP7RTvOeLsGo/E=; b=sFd/j7hcyejJAZS9ki83yA0NBoTI/qSJnCczcszvCUQ/LO3jXrjs9ELVI2KJADMQkf r2w//a268XC9TOAQzKF0k+s6jXj0yMKWhxLBTeDWikFVBwOaJt3JNv9j/e3dNCqCna0D lFcSJA2N9/rr4tVKPWxUj8wv9oKt6rWDjhfolGJvZzoqp0bFs7m2r5ij39JtHocxSS3M gFE8pP+KxlmmvOJc5DnUxAjkyn9Z03lpYQlJG/LXmAQpisf+fZqJYE8ZFcmCDAK6+6lk YFnGQbMCbZBNQUN8dwDsTSi5DKy/E8iV7QwY3l+SOFxYVfhatYj534jnURFPR0MCufM3 rZ0w== X-Received: by 10.180.107.97 with SMTP id hb1mr38626555wib.20.1402407409741; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:36:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.20.203] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id s9sm20924253wix.13.2014.06.10.06.36.48 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:36:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <539709BD.7000106@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:35:57 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge util-linx; util-linux and sysvinit block eachother. References: <20140609112803.GC3473@acm.acm> <201406092115.49142.dilfridge@gentoo.org> <5396208F.6000007@gmail.com> <5396DF97.7070509@thegeezer.net> In-Reply-To: <5396DF97.7070509@thegeezer.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ec6d8b1f-716f-45af-bd27-9aedad440756 X-Archives-Hash: 2de25331c4ad3fecebc163560bfea3bd 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