Re: [gentoo-user] subtitleeditor failed to compile/update

[gevisz]

2016-02-23 10:40 GMT+02:00 Neil Bothwick :
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 07:54:57 +0200, gevisz wrote:
>
>> During an update of my Gentoo box yesterday,
>> the subtitleeditor failed to compile.
>>
>> Then, I uninstalled it, updated the rest of the
>> system and tried to install the subtitleeditor anew.
>>
>> As a result, its compilation failed even more graciously.
>
> I don't have an answer to the build issue, but you don't need to
> uninstall a package to get a world update to complete. Either use
> --keep-going, which will carry on after a package fails, or use --exclude
> to avoid updating that package in the first place.

Thank you for the advice.

The reason for uninstalling the package (and the other 3 packages
it depends on with --depclean), updating the rest of the system and
installing it anew was that I wanted to exclude the case that this package
does not update because it needs a newer versions of all packages
it depends on, though I agree that running world update with --exclude
and then reemerging the excluded package will do (almost?) the same.

P.S. My previous world update was just a week ago.

Re: [gentoo-user] subtitleeditor failed to compile/update

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 07:54:57 +0200, gevisz wrote:

> During an update of my Gentoo box yesterday,
> the subtitleeditor failed to compile.
> 
> Then, I uninstalled it, updated the rest of the
> system and tried to install the subtitleeditor anew.
> 
> As a result, its compilation failed even more graciously.

I don't have an answer to the build issue, but you don't need to
uninstall a package to get a world update to complete. Either use
--keep-going, which will carry on after a package fails, or use --exclude
to avoid updating that package in the first place.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.


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