On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:13:26 -0700 > schrieb Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com>: > >> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:11:53 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> > >> >> > Doing system first makes good sense. Then you can update your config >> >> > files, follow the openrc update etc and then reboot. The world part of >> >> > the update will take quite a while, especially if you use KDE or >> >> > GNOME. >> >> >> >> <hehe> Less than most PC. It's an i7-980x with 24GB of RAM with RAID1. >> > > > Gah, I'm getting PC envy ;-) ! > >> 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. >
Thanks for pointing that out. When doing a long set it means I don't have to keep coming in here to make sure it's doing the most it can. Nice addition. Cheers, Mark
