On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 23:45 -0500, A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: > > > So what do I do if something fails when I emerge all this stuff? Is my > > server going to go down? I am just wondering if there is anything I can > > do to protect myself from downtime and errors. > > Im sorry but the previous post already answered the question by quoting > the documentation. > > An emerge that fails does *not* get merged into your file-system and > building binary packages also skips the merge step. (So how would it break > your server if the package never gets merged into your file system?) > > > man emerge
I think the problem is that if you build a whole lot of packages only, without installing them, then (because each package is not actually installed on a live filesystem) any package that depends on an earlier one will fail. I know what I'm saying, but it isn't coming out right... > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
