On 02/03/2017 10:49:47 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 03 Feb 2017 18:30:52 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> when I emerge many packages (currently more than 3000), emerge
nearly
> never succeeds.
> Yes, I'm using the option --keep-going but this doesn't help most of
> the time.
>
> I have the complete emerge command in one file which has lots of
lines.
> Now I have the problem to remove those packages from this file which
> have been successfully emerged.
>
> Currently I have written a Python program to scan
/var/log/emerge.log
> to extract packages which have been
> emerged and which then removes these from my original file.
> This still needs some manual tweaking in the case when a packages
has
> to be installed more than once (into different slots).
>
> Is there a more elegant solution to this probably most common
problem?
emerge -n is the correct solution, although emerge -u may also work
for
you.
Many thanks, Neil.
Still, I don't see how this can help me in my situation.
I'm trying to re-emerge packages which are already installed and where
there isn't a new version in the tree (in most cases).
So neither -u nor -n will do the job.
Helmut.
