This seems almost scarier than having it fail at 3 of 200. Gee, important package can't be emerged but others dependent upon it are... Well, there goes the box. So sad to think how often I want to revert my main box back to Gentoo again. I've been quite happy with Archlinux on the desktop for some time now and Gentoo on the fileserver.
TBA, MrO --- Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone here still running Gentoo? > > > ----- Forwarded message ----- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Gentoo Weekly Newsletter > http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20061204-newsletter.xml > This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 4 > December 2006. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > [snip] > > ================== > 3. Tips and Tricks > ================== > > An easier way to update your world > ---------------------------------- > > Without doubt, one of Gentoo's best features is its package > management > system, Portage. Portage makes it very easy to update your > entire system > with one simple command. Sadly, things don't always go as > smooth as they > should. Almost every Gentoo user has typed emerge -uD world > and gone to bed > with the hope of waking up in the morning to a completely up > to date system. > Unfortunately, it's more likely that you.ll wake up to a > failed emerge on > package 3 of 220. And so the troubleshoot and emerge --resume > process > begins. > > Enter update-world to save the day. Update-world is a bash > script that was > recently created by count_zero and posted[7] in the forums. > The script > controls the update process and forces portage to skip past > failed builds > and continue compiling packages until the update list is > finished. Failed > builds are added to a list for review once the update is > finished. > > 7. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-497125.html > > Note: The script does depend on the 'equery' command, part of > app-portage/gentoolkit. > > Obviously before you can start using the script, you'll need > to download it, > put it somewhere in your path, and make it executable. > > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Code Listing 3.1 > | > | getting the script > | > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | # wget -O /usr/bin/update-world > http://countzero.amidal.com/files/update-world | > | # chmod +x /usr/bin/update-world > | > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > Now we're ready to start using the script. > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Code Listing 3.2 > | > | running update-world > | > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | # update-world --prepare > | > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > This begins the update process by creating a list of packages > to be emerged, > as produced by emerge -uD --newuse world. (Alternatively, you > can use > update-world --empty to create a list of all packages on the > system, akin to > emerge -e world). This command creates a list called > 'emergelist' in > ~/.update-world/. Now, you can use your favorite editor to > modify this list > how you like--remove packages, change versions, etc. When you > have the > emergelist how you like it, you're ready to move onto the next > step: > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Code Listing 3.3 > | > | running update-world (cont) > | > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | # update-world --install > | > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > This command actually starts the build process, just as if you > had typed > emerge -uD world. The difference is, if a package fails for > some reason or > another, that package is added to a list 'failedlist' in > ~/.update-world/. > Also, a link to the portage log file for that package (usually > located in > /var/log/portage) is created in ~/.update-world/[date]/log/. > Once the > process is done, you'll be presented with a list of failed > packages to take > care of all at once, saving much time. If you ever need to > stop the process, > just hit 'Control-C' to abort the process. The update can then > be restarted > at any time, just where it left off, by retyping update-world > --install. > > [snip] > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
