Alex Schuster wrote: > Iván Pérez Domínguez writes: > >> After installing Gentoo in different machines several times, I wonder if >> is there any way to tell emerge to keep installing as much as possible >> even when something goes wrong. > > Sure there is. Have a look at the emerge man page, there 's lots uf useful > information. portage also has a nice man page.
I just read both (and make.conf as well). Maybe I missed something, but I think that suggestion has not been implemented so far. > > >> emerge stuff1 stuff2 stuff3 >> >> emerge says "the following packages will be emerged" and so on. >> >> Alright. Then stuff1 fails to compile. I'd like emerge to continue >> trying to install stuff2 and stuff3 when possible. > > emerge --resume --skipfirst > This resumes the last emerge, skipping the first package. Leave > the --skipfirst to try again. This one I already knew. > I like to use "FEATURES=keepwork > emerge --resume" to resume an interrupted emerge without restarting from > scratch, but this feature seems to be broken at the moment. > >> I know I could write several emerges in different lines (something like >> emerge stuff1; emerge stuff2; emerge stuff3), I just feel like this >> feature should have an option of its own in emerge (i.e. >> --keep-going-as-far-as-possible). > > Maybe, but on the other hand it's a little bash one-liner. I don't get your point here, sorry. > >> This could be very handy when updating world or, in general, when the >> emerge is going to take a lot of time and you decide to leave, expecting >> everything to be merged when you come back. > > This will emerge world and continue after every error, skipping that > package: > emerge world -u || while ! emerge --resume --skipfirst; do :; done > > Alex > As I said before, the line above (emerge a; emerge b; emerge c;) could work as well. The main point is that, in my opinion, that feature should be included in emerge itself. Your line has a problem: it won't skip the first package in your line, it will skip only the first package to be emerged, which may be a required dependency to build another package, propagating an error in one compilation to later compilations. Even worse, some package could get installed without one of its dependencies. Ivan.
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