Portage can continue to build packages if one fails. # emerge -options package/list_of_packages || until emerge -same_options_as_before package/list_of_packages ; do : ;done
All with a little help from bash, of course. I think Andressen taught me this trick. It makes no sense to leave your box on overnight only to find that it quit emerge 10 minutes into your sleep because of one package failure to install/build. Unisys | 370 Jay St. Storage Room 66 | Brooklyn, NY 11201 | NYCT: (718) 243-5086 Personal Cell Phone #: (646) 724-5776 ------------------------------------ > -----Original Message----- > From: Iain Buchanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:46 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview > > > On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 22:42 +0100, Zsitvai János wrote: > > > And the recent addition of the option '--continue-on-failure' won me > > over all over again. :) > > I've been wondering for a long time why portage doesn't continue with > building other packages when one fails - so long as deps are met why > stop? > > Acutally, while I'm on the subject of features - here's another one I'd > like to see: parallel merges instead of parallel makes. Since many > packages have problems with MAKEOPTS, it doesn't help with configure > scripts anyway and other parts of the process, why not spawn 2 or 3 > emerges automatically? Each one could do it's own "tree" of packages > and dependencies that don't affect the other... would be nice IMHO. > > cya, > -- > Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> > > People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. > -- Ken Kesey > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
