On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:13:26 -0700 > schrieb Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com>: >> A couple of packages in this OpenRC upgrade aren't building. I hope >> they are less important. So far groff and help2man have failed so I >> did --resume --skip-first and moved on for now. > > Just a note: you can also specify "--keep-going" and portage will do that for > you and even recalculate the dependencies before continuing. After it's done, > it gives you a message listing the packages that failed.
I use the --keep-going always, it was a great addition and especially helpful when there is a bad package that won't compile for a week or two, it makes it easier to just ignore it. Also on big upgrade emerges like that sometimes packages will fail during "the big emerge" but after you finish, etc-update, env-update whatever, they will build okay, for whatever reason. Maybe related to gcc/binutils/other libs stuff not matching for a short while...
