Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2017-12-18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2017-12-18, John Blinka <john.bli...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards >>> <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> How do I skip grub and continue? >>> emerge --skipfirst --resume > [...] > >> Oddly, the failing package (grub:0) wasn't the first one: it was about >> 5-6 packags down the list. So I used --exclude instead. We'll see >> how far that gets... > It took a couple days, but after "resuming" the emerge three times, it > finished. The three failures were grub:0, matplotlib, and crrcsim. > > Each time the failed package was around 5th on the list when I did a > resume. And, each time emerge insisted on rebuilding gcc and glibc > first. [I don't remember what else preceded the failed packages when > I did the resumes.] > > I think I'll postpone upgrading to profile 17 on my "real work" > computers where I have a lot more packages installed. >
I'm not sure why or what all this involves but there is a thread on -dev about a 17.1 profile coming at some point. One may want to consider waiting to do to much for that. Some of the messages make it seem to be a really large process to upgrade to it. I'm hoping some or even most of it is just the devs testing things. o_O Just a thought. Dale :-) :-)
