Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 21 February 2005 11:47 am, Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Monday 21 February 2005 12:31 pm, you wrote: >> > Jesse Guardiani wrote: >> > >I had a power failure last night on this >> > >machine after already compiling 147 packages. >> > > >> > >Is there any way I can trick portage into starting >> > >on package # 147 in a 537 package `emerge -e world` >> > >operation? >> > > >> > >Thanks! >> > >> > emerge --resume >> >> I don't think that works with -e. I tried it and got >> an error message stating that there was nothing to >> resume. I think --resume only resumes individual emerges, >> not batch operations. > > 1) --resume is meant to be used alone, it doesn't make sense to use it > with > -e. It can be used to resume a merge process started with -e, though.
Ah ha! There should be a note about that in the man page! Thanks! That works quite well! > 2) --resume works ONLY for "batch" operations. Individual packages have > the entire emerge process repeated (clean work dir, extract, configure, > compile, merge). > >> Either that or it doesn't work after a reboot.... > > It will work after a reboot, but not afer any other emerge has started. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net -- [email protected] mailing list
