On Sunday 14 January 2007 13:22, Iván Pérez Domínguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong': > 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.
No, there's not. But, there is a way to emerge to restart either from the package where it errored out (emerge --resume), or on the next package (emerge --resume --skipfirst). Since emerge is a somewhat well-behaved program, it if fails it will exit with a non-zero exit code. With that knowledge in hand it's easy to have your shell restart things. The following (all one line) should work in any POSIX-compliant shell: emerge --some-options a-bunch/of-packages || while ! emerge --resume --skipfirst; do :; done I've also attached a longer system update script that I use, for reference. In general, it's best for a program to bail out if it discovers it can't do everything you asked, and not do it "half-way". The only program that even provides a "keep going" option is make, and all the uses I've seen of that option are abuses. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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