Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread felix
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 06:30:37PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:55:59 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > > and it picks up the same several day old failed emerge instead of the > > one it was running. > > Try "emaint -f cleanresume" Same result. emain did something, but

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:55:59 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > and it picks up the same several day old failed emerge instead of the > one it was running. Try "emaint -f cleanresume" -- Neil Bothwick A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard. signature.asc Descrip

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread Dale
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:08:26AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, wrote: >> >>> I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use >>> --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. Every once in a >>> while

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread felix
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:18:14AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:08:26AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, wrote: > > > I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use > > > --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as po

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:18 AM, wrote: > Good grief. That's *zackly* what I have wanted for a long time. When > did it get added? >From bug 12768 it looks like it was added by Zac Medico on 2008-06-27 :)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread felix
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:08:26AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, wrote: > > I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use > > --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. Every once in a > > while, it gets forgetful and picks up an emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, wrote: > I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use > --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. Every once in a > while, it gets forgetful and picks up an emerge from several days > previous to try to resume instead of the one tha

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:02:21AM -0700, Penguin Lover fe...@crowfix.com squawked: > I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use > --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. May I suggest using the --keep-going option for emerge to do what you want to do instead

[gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread felix
I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. Every once in a while, it gets forgetful and picks up an emerge from several days previous to try to resume instead of the one that just failed. This is pretty annoying. It start