I was wondering what kind of effect force-emerging files would be in the event
that they had dependent packages that previously failed??
-E
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] update-world from GWN
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 -----
>
>
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> 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]
>
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