On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 14:04 -0700, Joshua Baergen wrote: > Matthias Langer wrote: > > 2.) emerge -e world on a system with lot of packages will most likley > > fail somewhere during the process for various reasons. Fixig the problem > > (for example by unmerging the package which causes it) and restarting > > the process is not an option, as this may cost you lot's of time. In my > > case, emerge -e world stopped 3 times. To continiue without starting it > > all again, i did > > > > # emerge --resume -p > package.list > > > > and then edited this file with vi so that > > > > # emerge --oneshot --nodeps `cat package.list` > > > > > You'd probably be interested in 'emerge --resume --skipfirst'.
:-) well, this is just the kind of information i had expected to find in the migration guide. By the way, please don't get me wrong, i highly appreciate the hard work you are all doing - gentoo really is a great project and my remarks here in this list have the sole purpose to make it eaven better. Matthias > > -- > Joshua Baergen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
