On Saturday 16 April 2005 21:47, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> I frequently find myself fetching packages then building.  Reading
> through the emerged documentation that does not seem to be any way to do
> both in one step fetch first, and then if successful, fetch second?
>
> I tried:
>
> emerge -fDva world && emerge -uDv world
>
> which only mostly prefetched files (misssed a bunch).  tried F instead
> of F and it missed more and changed what it installed.
>
> ideas?

There's no way to quit a fetch run if a single fetch fails.

> ps. updating laptop that was idle for 6+ months:  320 packages... a good
> test of my gentoo skills.  so far so good.  you can bet your ass I'm
> backing up /etc before running dispatch-conf...

Wait a couple of weeks and there'll be a couple of dispatch-conf releases that 
should make a little bit safer.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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